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Quotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux GalleryQuotations 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 [...]
From Motherland, a memoir by Fern Schumer Chapman
“The plane blazes toward the breaking horizon, though my mother still isn’t convinced she wants to go on this trip. Sitting next to me in the window seat, she keeps shifting uncomfortably, fidgeting with [...]
From “Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad,” by Ann Petry
“...Two days later, a slave working beside Harriet in the fields motioned to her. She bent toward him, listening. He said the water boy had just brought news to the field hands, and it [...]
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address before U. S. Senate February 20, 1892
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self," Address before the U. S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, February 20, 1892 Being one of her last public speeches. [...]
Transformation: Quotations
“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” Joseph Campbell “If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can [...]
Spiritual Diversity: Quotations
From The World's Religions, by Huston Smith: “Muslims point out that Muhammad incorporated into his charter for Medina the principle of religious toleration that these verses announce. They regard that document as the first [...]
Women’s Voices: Quotations
“Full maturity…is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.” Angela Barron McBride, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Dean, School of Nursing, Indiana University, noted for her work on women’s health issues. “You grow [...]
“Who Can Tell…” a Poem by Sufi Mystic Allama Iqbal
Who can tell what miracles Love has in store for us If only we have the courage To become one with It? Everything we think we know now Is only the beginning Of another knowing [...]
Some thoughts of Marcus Aurelius: Quotations
'Remember that sometimes to change your mind is just as astute as to be able to discern the right course without advice.' Marcus Aurelius 'Before each action think: shall I have no reason to repent [...]
Peace, Reconciliation, and Retaliation: Quotations
“We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in [...]
From “A Sense of the Cosmos: Scientific Knowledge and Spiritual Truth”
“…Every day, in almost all its branches, the revelations of modern science offer evidence that the universe, reality itself, is alive—alive beyond all imagining. All those who love science must know this truth in [...]
An Excerpt from “The Snow Leopard” by Peter Matthiessen, page 64-67 GalleryAn Excerpt from “The Snow Leopard” by Peter Matthiessen, page 64-67
History and Culture, Consciousness, Energy, and Matter: Quotations, Cross-Cultural Mythology, Justice and Ethics: Quotations, Oneness and Unity: Quotations, Spiritual Diversity: Quotations
An Excerpt from “The Snow Leopard” by Peter Matthiessen, page 64-67
"All phenomenal are processes, connections, all is in flux. and at moments this flux is actually visible: one has only to open the mind in meditation or have the mind screens knocked awry by [...]
Intentions and Expectations: Quotations from the Christian Gospels GalleryIntentions and Expectations: Quotations from the Christian Gospels
History and Culture, Courage, Hope, Meaning: Quotations, Christianity, Forgiveness and Repentance: Quotations, Intention and Expectation: Quotations, Spiritual Diversity: Quotations
Intentions and Expectations: Quotations from the Christian Gospels
Words of Jesus as remembered by John “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he [...]
Dependent Arising, A Quotation
Quotation by Thomas J. McFarlane from Process and Emptiness: A Comparison of Whitehead’s Process Philosophy and Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy “…One of the core doctrines in Buddhist philosophy is that everything exists as a dependent [...]
Four Corners
"I stand, silent and in awe, before the mystery and uniqueness of each tradition and each individual and hold them sacrosanct in their way of being." Glenda Taylor I am spending a brief time [...]
Authenticity
"You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!” Sufi Mystic Rumi Recently, National Public Radio [...]
