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Justice and Ethics: Quotations
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” Mahatma Gandhi “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Elie [...]
Quotation: Greatness
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself [...]
Jeanette Rankin, First Woman Elected to US Congress
Jeannette Rankin made history in 1916 as the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress. A representative from Montana, she was a champion for civil and legal rights of women and children. [...]
“On Preserving Democracy,” Passages from Aristotle
Selected Passages Chosen From “Preserving Democracy,“ by Aristotle From Democracy in the Politics of Aristotle, edited by Thomas R. Martin, with Neel Smith & Jennifer F.Stuart, edition of July 26, 2003 1276b: 28-29: …The task [...]
Journey Home, by Glenda Taylor
“So, where are you from?” Again and again I’ve heard that question, as for a couple of months now I’ve traveled around Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. This past week, when I’ve occasionally been [...]
Navajo Nation Reacts to Children at Border
I am currently camping out near the Four Corners area of Colorado. I picked up a Navajo Nation newspaper, and I noted an article citing the Navajo Nation's reaction to the current border crisis [...]
Archetypes, Part One, by Glenda Taylor
The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung said that the gods and goddesses of myth are “archetypal” symbols. Jung spent a great deal of time developing his theories concerning archetypes, and many psychologists since Jung have [...]
Ancestry: Governmental Documents: Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
On the Fourth of July, I often think of Thomas Jefferson, who is an example of the complexity of human nature if ever there was one. The back and forth interplay of fortune, fate, [...]
- Debate and Decision Making: Quotation by Martin Prechtel Gallery
Debate and Decision Making: Quotation by Martin Prechtel
Native American, Change: Quotations, History and Culture, Cross-Cultural Mythology, Consciousness, Energy, and Matter: Quotations, Psychology, Earth and Ecology, Healing: Quotations, Individualism: Quotations, Intention and Expectation: Quotations, Intuition: Quotations, Oneness and Unity: Quotations, Prayer: Quotations, Spiritual Diversity: Quotations, Transformation: Quotes
Debate and Decision Making: Quotation by Martin Prechtel
Glenda Taylor Comments: Yesterday morning I read something that was perfect for me personally to hear on the day of the “Great Debate.” It gave me a delightful and ancient context for our zany [...]
My Concern For The Children, by Glenda Taylor
My Concern For The Children, by Glenda Taylor South Texas Border - U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2014; Photo by Eddie Perez and US Dept. of Homeland Security, Public Domain. When [...]
Letting History Wash Over Us
I awoke this morning to the familiar cadence of a certain bird that greets each day perched on a bush somewhere outside my bedroom window at dawn. The amazing thing to me is that, [...]
A Grandmother’s Prayer for Young Men, by Glenda Taylor
A Grandmother’s Prayer for Young Men, by Glenda Taylor Oh, Great and Good Spirit, behold these many young men, especially those just coming into their adulthood in a world so confusing, when what it [...]
“What We Want, We Have,” an excerpt from Huston Smith’s “The World Religions”
Hinduism and the Meaning of the Self, an excerpt from Huston Smith: “…Pleasure, success, responsible discharge of duty, and liberation—we have completed the circuit of what people think they want and what they want [...]
A Partial Timeline for Women’s Studies, by Dawn Warren
1850 BC Egyptian texts describe the first known reference to contraceptives. 1750 BC The Code of Hammurabi, the Babylonian law code, protects a woman's right to hold and inherit property. 1500 BC Female students [...]
- Ancestry: Contemporary: An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper Gallery
Ancestry: Contemporary: An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper
Native American, History and Culture, Consciousness, Energy, and Matter: Quotations, Cross-Cultural Mythology, Ancestry: Contemporary, Earth and Ecology, Intention and Expectation: Quotations, All Ancestry Content, Prayer: Quotations
Ancestry: Contemporary: An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper
“The bowl of the pipe is a sacrificial vessel that itself is a miniature cosmos. Often tobacco is added pinch by pinch, each explicitly dedicated to the sacred directions as well as [...]
- Quotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux Gallery
Quotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Native American, History and Culture, Cross-Cultural Mythology, Consciousness, Energy, and Matter: Quotations, Psychology, Spirituality, Fear, Courage, and Reassurance: Quotations, Earth and Ecology, Prayer: Quotations
Quotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk was a holy man of the Oglala Sioux. The following quotes are from Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux: “The Sun [...]
Order and Connection, A Quote from Vine Deloria Jr.
“…From observing the world around them, they could see orderly processes that marked the way organic life behaved. From the obvious motions of the sun and moon to the effects of periodic winds, rains, [...]
War, Peace, Reconciliation, by Glenda Taylor
This article, War, Peace, Reconciliation, is by Glenda Taylor, who notes: "I wrote this in 1989, but amazingly, as I read it in the year 2018, it is as current today as ever it [...]
Settled, Unsettled
Every time I've come to Colorado by driving up out of the mostly flat lands of East Texas, through the endless plains, to the foothills, and eventually to the sudden uprising of the great [...]
Mystery
What are we to do? In this time of cultural chaos, this video explores the question of where we may find the bedrock values and strength to go on and to have peace in [...]
On Shamanism
A Letter, Concerning Shamanism, June 2015 I am happy to see that your group is undertaking an exploration of the meaning and background of shamanism, a subject of long interest to me. I know [...]
From “What Every American Should Know About Women’s History” by Christine Lunardini, Ph.D.
“When Belva Lockwood was widowed for the first time in 1853, she moved with her young daughter to Washington, DC, in hopes of finding suitable employment to support the two of them. A teacher [...]
From “Gift From The Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Herein lies the problem. If women were convinced that a day off or an hour of solitude was a reasonable ambition, they would find a way of attaining it. As it is, they feel [...]
From “Gorillas In The Mist,” by Dian Fossey
“I spent many years longing to go to Africa, because of what that continent offered in its wilderness and great diversity of free-living animals. Finally I realized that dreams seldom materialize on their own. [...]
From the final chapter of “Woman as Healer” by Jeanne Achterber
“...Sisterhood has been the bond that has held women healers together in the dimmest days of Western civilization...Women healers taught each other the healing arts when training was forbidden and the guilds closed to [...]