american indians
greed and ego
love and spiritual mission
purpose and mission
american indian philosophy
American Indian philosophy, about Life and existence, and your own personal mission.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23746)
Australia
October 17, 2017 10:22pm CST
"Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence."
Mourning Dove Salish, (1888-1936), a Native American Author.
I wonder if this true, and if there any truth to what she said there, or not?
Love lives in every part of creation, but to savour the love fully, we must make use of the growth of the Earth around us, with us a part of it.
To ignore the Earth, and to exploit it, ignores also our own proper growth spiritually, rather we are then "productly" wanting products, rather than any real growth.
In other words, only our ego grows then, at the expense of our World, and our spiritual selves. We leave our own personal missions alone, and replace them with money, profiteering, and greed, instead.
“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
A Cree Indian Prophecy
What do you think about this?
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
18 Oct 17
Yes, so many of them were killed off rather than listened to though. Millions of them were killed over the 400 years since America was first colonised by the Europeans.
From various estimates, their original population was anywhere from 20 to 90 million, but by 1900, the Native American population in the United States had dropped to only around 250,000.
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@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
18 Oct 17
Yes, it's a sad fact @innertalks the worst part is that our for fathers desecrated their holy lands and burial sites. What would a person do if the graves of their grandparents or great grandparents were treated the same way?
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
19 Oct 17
@rebelann The same thing has happened with sacred burial sites here of the Australian Aboriginals in Australia. Many such sites are discovered when building and road works are carried out.
Such works usually require a "heritage monitor" nowadays, to be on-site to check for bones, and remains, and at least to remove them to a new burial site, if the major project is still to go ahead.
At least, the Governement here is becoming more sensitive to these types of issues, although mostly they have been forced into taking this position, from the public outcries, if they do not do the right thing by the Aboriginals.
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@Bluedoll (16770)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
I like 'grey owls' quote remember you belong to nature, not it to you.
For some reason man wants to elevate himself above nature and to consider he is the master of his domain and not a part of it. If he continues to be abusive it will be to his demise. Nature will always go on but with one less abundant creature.
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@Bluedoll (16770)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
@innertalks I do wonder about that too. There are the alarmists and the skeptics. When nature shows we can't do what we do, when the costs escalate only then will the capitalistic attitudes want change. Will it be too late? Perhaps nature will simply show us a world of adjustments but very harshly. We might be seeing the tip of the iceberg now. And if they were to completely disappear a very different world.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
19 Oct 17
@Bluedoll Yes, if we start to tip the iceberg over, or melt it too far past its tip, to choose two iceberg metaphors, the world will change in dramatic ways, I think then.
The wild weather patterns most of the world is experiencing now, with higher temperatures, more fires, rising ocean levels, to me, it's all becoming a bit scary, but it's all still not scary enough to move the sceptics from their armchairs in their ivory towers yet, it seems.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
19 Oct 17
Yes, that's a great quote. I believe he also said:
"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back."
Let's hope we turn back, before Nature turns its back on us too.
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
18 Oct 17
Our beliefs and what we need to believe can be doctored. We are life around our beliefs, be it about religion, social life, money, etc. So if I believe, xyz amount is what I need for retirement, it is my belief, it may or may not be true. But I completely orient my energies towards that goal. I add more and even add fresh set of beliefs to the existing ones. Like I need a car that can be like a camper van. lol.
Constant review of it with a more static view might help. The one that is mentioned above by you is perfect.
I know what it means to be hungry. I have seen tough years in my life, financially, emotionally, and physically. So to that extent, I am careful with using money. Careful does not mean greedy. I have a few debts to clear as well. So yes, I do collect monies. Not going to lie.
But not for that beautiful dress, or beautiful house, or to show off at hotels, or even vacationing. Food, clothing, shelter, medicines, indebtedness, and help to some friends who are having it tough and some charity
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
18 Oct 17
@innertalks .. Yes, that is also so true. One is perceivable, other requires me to stop to perceive.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
18 Oct 17
@vandana7 Yes, that's a good differentiation between the two ways of our being.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
18 Oct 17
And yet I think that it is not really all just about our beliefs either.
We just need to sit in the sun of God, to feel his love constantly upon us.
The sun always shines its light on all, as does God his love.
All just bask in God's love. We need to feel it and to know that nothing else exists.
When we feel bad, we just need to retry to feel God's love, and know it is still there.
It is there always, at all times for you, and for all of creation.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
19 Oct 17
Lovely and needed post Steve stopping us on our tracks, making us pause and re-calibrate our lives.
Is is basic wisdom more than what we can imbibe by reading tomes, gong through elaborate rituals, that make us lose the essence of what life is really about.
I believe in divinity of creation with everything divinely inspired and with a purpose
Being at the apex of all species we should know freedom and rights go with duties and responsibilities.
That is the next level to reach provided we survive our present turmoil and anarchy that we have created by our greed, selfishness and hypocrisy - siva
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
19 Oct 17
Thanks for your appreciative comments siva.
I am mostly positive about the future, as I think enough good people will stay around to stem the tide of the greedy.
Hopefully, even the greedy, over time, will see that there is no greed in real love, and as I said above, that greed never feeds the heart, or grows us spiritually, or in other words, we really can't eat only just money!
If nothing changes, all that will be left in the end is stockpiles of money.
All the land, animals, plants, and trees, will have been totally decimated by the greedy, who would then find themselves decimated too, then in the end too, but too late to change anything then, if their realisation takes that long to surface in them.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
19 Oct 17
@Shiva49 The way the Governments work, they do not give any incentive to their country's inhabitants to do the right things by the environment.
Here, for example, they move in the environment's direction (pressured to do so) always in the wrong way.
The public end up paying the higher bills, and the Government sits back and keeps raking it in.
Here the idiots closed all the coal-fired electricity plants, sacked all the workers, because of pressure from the greenies, and now we have constant blackouts, and prices that are skyrocketing out of control.
There is not now enough electricity, or back up plans for emergencies.
They shoot the elephant in the room, not thinking that that too is a part of nature too.
To move forwards, their thinking must be completely revamped, not just to jump onto the latest fad solution, and then try to make profits again from their doing so, by raking it from the leaves of, and off the poor public again.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
19 Oct 17
@innertalks We have managed to stop the theatrics just before our doom before, so we may continue to play with fire as memory is short. Yeah, our luck should hold again to give us extended lease of life.
We are part of nature and should stay rooted to it and embrace its core qualities that variety is the spice of life. We have moved away to artificiality in our lifestyle with a take we can get away with reckless abandon in how we treat nature. It has been ever forgiving like a loving mother and it is time we realized our folly and learned from the wisdom of our forefathers who stayed rooted to ground realities. Creation is divine - siva .
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