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In the moral universe all activities, events, and entities are related, and consequently it does not matter what kind of existence an entity enjoys, for the responsibility is always there for it to participate in the continuing creation of reality.

We want to have certain benefits from the physical world. In seeking something for ourselves, we must recognize that obtaining what we want at the expense of other forms of life or of the Earth itself is short-sighted and disrupts the balance which the whole fabric of life requires. Instead of the predatory jungle which the Anglo-Saxon imagination conjures up to analogize life, in which the most powerful swallows up the weak and unprotected, life is better understood as a tapestry or symphony in which each player has a specific part or role to play.

We must be in our proper place and we must play our role at the appropriate moment. Mutual respect in many ways is a function of a strong sense of personal and communal identity, and it is significant that most of the tribes described themselves as “the people”, a distinct group with clearly defined values and patterns of behavior.

Unlike Western religion and philosophy, the fact that man had been the final product of the purposeful life force did not make him the crown of creation. Coming last, humans beings were the “younger brothers” of the other life forms and therefore had to learn everything from these creatures.

The real interest of the old Indians was not to discover the abstract structure of physical reality but rather to find the proper road along which, for the duration of a person’s life, individuals were supposed to walk.

Vine Deloria (via cultureofresistance

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(Source: socialuprooting, via fromdusttodiamonds)

4 months ago

That Which We Occupy

A must watch… I mean it.

“There’s a beautiful sadness we all fall into at some point in our life.

It’s at that point we start asking ourselves profound questions about life, planets, stars, religion.

Some so young, it’s just imagination…

Some so late, there’s no time for closure…

One thing I’ve noticed is that there’s a native trait in all people that constitutes a person’s confidence… and that is belief.

Whether a person believes in God, religion, no religion, world bankers, aliens, revolt or the idea that we are all one-life animals.

Maybe some believe in drugs, some in music.

Some in an energy they can’t explain and created their own answers to it.

Whatever they believe, it is there.

There’s an introversion, it comes with this belief; It’s the idea that there’s only that in which we occupy:

earth, out jobs, our hungers, our wars- inside and out.

These are the things in which we infuse life into.

It controls our games, our values, our priorities.

This belief it no a bad one, it is just fuel…

…and this is what I always wanted to say to the world:

Instead of just sitting around questioning, demanding, complaining about how others are doing it all wrong; take action.

Start at home, change the tone.

Move onto your friends. Do them a favor. Be there when they ask.

If something isn’t right at a company, a school, an organization- change it. Write a letter, make a gesture, change a mind.

Protest, demand answers.

Be in groups that attack your so-called enemies.

My point is there enough talk and not enough action.

I’m calling for the young-at-heart, the rebels with causes, the freedom fighters of this world to start fighting.

And to those of you who have not started asking questions, those of you zombified by the media, the ones too comfortable in this life and the way it is…

Wake up please.”

5 months ago
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