The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses.
No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.
The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey
and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
This is the day your life really begins.

When you come to the end of all the light you know and you are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will either be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly.

Practice of sacred relationship is practice of good relations with all in the family of life. Thus the seven reminders to the people, that all might recall and honor the unity of the hoop:

1. What walks, swims, flies, or creeps is in relationship; the mountains, streams, and valleys and all things are related to your thought and action.

2. What occurs around you and within you reflects your own mind and shows you the dream you are weaving.

3. Three principles of awakened mind guide enlightened action: will to see the
Mystery as it is; intention to manifest one's purpose for the benefit of all; courage to do what must be done.

4. Generosity of heart and action brings peace and abundance for all in the circle.

5. Respect for elders, clan, land, and nation inspires acts in harmony with the sacred law, good caretaking of the gifts received.

6. Action to benefit the land and the people unto seven generations shapes the
consciousness of the Planetary Caretaker, dreaming those yet unborn, ever mindful of life's unfolding.

7. To be in good relation, transforming patterns of separation, pacifying conflicting emotions, is to experience the wisdom within, still lake of Mystery.


Arising from these teachings are the nine precepts in the Code of Right Relationship:

1. Speak only words of truth.

2. Speak only of the good qualities of others.

3. Be a confidant and carry no tales.

4. Turn aside the veil of anger to release the beauty inherent in all.

5. Waste not the bounty, and want not.

6. Honor the light in all. Compare nothing; see all for its suchness.

7. Respect all life; cut away ignorance from one's own heart.

8. Neither kill nor harbor thoughts of angry nature, which destroy peace like an arrow.

9. Do it now; if you see what needs doing, do it.

"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you do. People will never forget how you made them feel."

Some thoughts by Albert Camus regarding Sisyphus...

One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. "What!---by such narrow ways--?" There is but one world, however. Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

All Sisyphus' silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him. His rock is a thing Likewise, the absurd man, when he contemplates his torment, silences all the idols. In the universe suddenly restored to its silence, the myriad wondering little voices of the earth rise up. Unconscious, secret calls, invitations from all the faces, they are the necessary reverse and price of victory. There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. The absurd man says yes and his efforts will henceforth be unceasing. If there is a personal fate, there is no higher destiny, or at least there is, but one which he concludes is inevitable and despicable. For the rest, he knows himself to be the master of his days. At that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning toward his rock, in that slight pivoting he contemplates that series of unrelated actions which become his fate, created by him, combined under his memory's eye and soon sealed by his death. Thus, convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling. If you don't know the myth of Sisyphus... ( go here to read itCollapse )