Lighting the Path Less Taken

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Elder's Meditation of the Day - September 29

"So I prayed, but I had to pray from my heart.
All of my concentration and thoughts went from my head to my heart.
All of my senses - hearing, smell, taste, and feeling - were connected to my heart."
--Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA

The heart is the gateway to the Unseen World, to the Spirit World. It takes real concentration to do this. To connect to our own heart is also a mental state. It starts in the head and transitions to the heart. This mental state is our inner stillness. Be still and know. This place of the heart is very joyous and peaceful. It is this place that we become one with God, our Creator.

Great Spirit, teach me to be a heart warrior.

Elder's Meditation of the Day - September 30

"Don't be afraid to cry.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts."
--Don Talayesva, HOPI

Human beings function from choice.
We can choose to stuff things, or we can choose to let go of things. If we choose to stuff things, then we will feel a heaviness, or sorrow, self pity or fear.
Sometimes we feel the need to cry.
Sometimes we are taught it is not okay to cry.
The creator designed the human being to cry.
Crying is a release.
This release allows us to let go of thoughts that are not helping us so we can open to new thoughts that will help. Crying is natural for women and men.

Grandfather, if I need to cry, let me realize it's a natural process and help me to let go.