Attributed to Hopi Tribal leader White Eagle (confirm if you know):
“This moment that mankind is experiencing now can be seen as either a door or a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the door is yours. If you absorb information 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, and pessimistic, you will fall into this hole.
But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, use the time to rethink life and death, to care for yourself and others, you are walking through the portal.
Keep your home, keep your body safe. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone else.
Don’t underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader perspective. There is a social issue in this crisis but also a spiritual issue. They both go hand in hand.
Without the social dimension we fall into bigotry. Without the spiritual dimension, we perish in pessimism and meaninglessness.
you ready to pass this crisis. Pack your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.
Learn the resistance from the example of the Indian and African people: We are and still are being threatened, extinct. But we never stopped singing, dancing, building bonfires and having joy.
Don’t feel guilty for feeling happy in these difficult times. It doesn’t help at all to be sad or angry. Resistance is resistance through joy!
You have every right to be strong and positive. And there’s no other way to do this than by adopting a beautiful, cheerful and empathetic attitude.
This has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It’s a resistance strategy.
When we enter the door, we are given a new worldview because we have faced our fears and overcome adversity. That’s all you can do now:
- Seek solace in the storm
- Keep calm, pray daily
- Make it a habit to meet the Holy everywhere, everyday.
Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.
Thank you, Natalie, for these grounding and encouraging words. I especially appreciate the call to remain joyful as an act of resilience and resistance.
We chose tough times 🙏🏽
Chose 🙂
Humanity is at a crossroad now. Separation is no longer and option. I chose to go through the door and come new on the other side. Let’s start by seeing the Divine in everyone and everything because the Divine is either in all of us or in none of us. The choice is ours.
I agree. I usually don’t advocate all or nothing thinking but in this, it’s crucial to see the All.
Thank you Natalie, what a time to be human!
No kidding …
Hi Natalie! Thanks so much for sending and sharing these moments of your life. I’ll never forget purchasing your book when it came out and reading such a fascinating enlightening perception of your experience. My spouse and I, are finding this experience as the best retirement ever!
As the YahYel said, channeled by Jonathan Trinity Martin, “The entire Universe is watching and listening and we all have front row seats!”
Much love and joy to you Natalie
Melanie
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