Native american wisdom

by Phil Lane Jr at
http://www.fwii.net/profiles/blog/show?id=2429082%3ABlogPost%3A27426&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

The Four Worlds Guiding Principles for Building a Sustainable and Harmonious World
The Sixteen Principles for building a sustainable and harmonious world community emerged from a 40-year process of reflection, consultation and action within Indigenous communities across the Americas. They are rooted in the concerns of hundreds of Indigenous Elders Spiritual Leaders and Community Members, as well as in the best thinking of many non- Indigenous scholars, researchers and human and community development practitioners.
These guiding principles constitute the foundation for the process of healing and developing ourselves (mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually), our human relationships (personal, social, political, economic, and cultural) and our relationship with Mother Earth. They describe the way we must work and what we must protect and cherish.
We offer these Guiding Principles as a gift to all who seek to build a sustainable and harmonious Global community.
PREAMBLE
We speak as one, guided by the sacred teachings and spiritual traditions of the Four Directions that uplift, guide, protect, warn, inspire and challenge the entire human family to live in ways that sustain and enhance human life and the lives of all who dwell on Mother Earth, and hereby dedicate our lives and energies to healing and developing ourselves, the web of relationships that make our world, and the way we live with Mother Earth.
THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Starting from within, working in a circle, in a sacred manner, we heal ourselves, our relationships and our world.
STARTING FROM WITHIN
Human Beings Can Transform Their Worlds
The web of our relationships with others and the natural world, which has given rise to the problems we face as a human family, can be changed.
Development Comes From Within
The process of human and community development unfolds from within each person, relationship, family organization, community or nation.
No Vision, No Development
A vision of who we can become and what a sustainable world would be like, works as a powerful magnet, drawing us to our potential.
Healing Is A Necessary Part Of Development
Healing the past, closing up old wounds and learning healthy habits of thought and action to replace dysfunctional thinking and disruptive patterns of human relations is a necessary part of the process of sustainable development.
WORKING IN A CIRCLE
Interconnectedness
Everything is connected to everything else; therefore, any aspect of our healing and development is related to all the others (personal, social, cultural, political, economic, etc.). When we work on any one part, the whole circle is affected.
No Unity, No Development
Unity means oneness. Without unity, the common oneness that makes (seemingly) separate human beings into ‘community’ is impossible. Disunity is the primary disease of community.
No Participation, No Development
Participation is the active engagement of the minds, hearts and energy of the people in the process of their own healing and development.
Justice
Every person (regardless of gender, race, age, culture, religion, sexual orientation) must be accorded equal opportunity to participate in the process of healing and development, and to receive a fair share of the benefits.
IN A SACRED MANNER
Spirit
Human beings are both material and spiritual in nature. It is therefore inconceivable that human community could become whole and sustainable without bringing our lives into balance with the requirements of our spiritual nature.
Morals and Ethics
Sustainable human and community development requires a moral foundation centered in the wisdom of the heart. When this foundation is lost, morals and ethical principles decline and development stops.
The Hurt of One Is the Hurt of All: The Honor of One Is the Honor Of All
The basic fact of our oneness as a human family means that development for some at the expense of well being for others is not acceptable or sustainable.
Authentic Development Is Culturally Based
Healing and development must be rooted in the wisdom, knowledge and living processes of the culture of the people.
WE HEAL AND DEVELOP OURSELVES, OUR RELATIONSHIPS AND OUR WORLD
Learning
Human beings are learning beings. We begin learning while we are still in our mother’s wombs, and unless something happens to close off our minds and paralyze our capacities, we keep learning throughout our entire lives. Learning is at the core of healing and development.
Sustainability
To sustain something means to enable it to continue for a long time. Authentic development does not use up or undermine what it needs to keep on going.
Move to the Positive
Solving the critical problems in our lives and communities is best approached by visualizing and moving into the positive alternative that we wish to create, and by building on the strengths we already have, rather than on giving away our energy fighting the negative.
Be the Change You Want To See
The most powerful strategies for change always involve positive role modeling and the creation of living examples of the solutions we are proposing. By walking the path, we make the path visible.


I feel so blessed ♥

Sky over me during eclipse/alignment may 20, 2012 ♥

This is a picture of clouds and sky above my house on the evening of sunday may 20, 2012, time of the eclipse/alignment of Alcyone, Sun, Moon, and Earth ~ I thought it was really cool and pretty and original.  I gave it up for Earth Fire Water and Air ~ and hail Quetzalcoatl, i heard he was gona be around, that feathered serpent ♥ i love you ♥



♥ Eagle ♥

I saw 2 eagles flying together, doing cool flying maneuvers - I was MOST excited - such a COOL sign on this ol' Universal Highway. 

juvenile eagle feathers - i just got this pic off the internet, i'm believing it is what it says it is

♥ superbly potent sweet juicy lovely Universal magic mojo ♥

i love you

♥ Butterflies ♥

 These 2 butterflies look like cousins, one light shade, one darker. 

They were in the yard right by the front door ♥

I'd never seen a butterfly like this with the light yellow/tan shade at the edge of the wings.

I love the li'l blue dots at the edge of the dark ♥ This li'l bubbie was also right outside the front door.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzzRDTfK1Lo&list=PL353BDC1C3A98F54F&index=46&feature=plpp_video

I LOVE YOU ♥ have a great fun play day

my BFF P.R.

Pretty sunbeam prism rainbow heart ... I just thought I'd post it and iterate how lucky i am to have such a sweet luscious fun friend, patrice
YAY !!!!

xoxoxo

and HAPPY NATAL DAY Nadine, i love you Mommy - yer gettin' old, all 81 ♥  hug dad from me ♥

a May SUNday

no bright sparkly beams this fine SUNday morning - but sky Water is here and I am most happy about it ♥  Above picture of the garden in the south side yard.  the sweet grass is all laying over with Water.  I love how the green lettuce in the back is so tall and next to the red red lettuce that is still low down near the ground.  i can Even see the li'l apples and zucchini flowers up in there.  the strawberries are definitely a huge green clump - that's what i'm having for breakfast nummie nums xoxoxoxo
thanks Universe for all the good stuff
I LOVE YOU ~  ;)  have fun ♥

Animal Jupiterday ♥

 DOGS.  Sunny is a basket case ha ha

And so i step out the front door this morning and there is this li'l

mourning dove walking/flopping along.  It didn't fly away so I einsteinianly deduced it was hurt.  I put one of the baby chicken cages around him and gave him water and food.  Hmmm ... wonder what li'l M.D. is all about. 

oh yeah

and

I LOVE YOU Silly Billies ♥

SWEET MAGNOLIA ♥

I didn't know magnolias grew in tennessee, they grow ENORMOUS and abundantly in florida.  When I found them here in TN I was quite glad for my friend also from fla to be here.  There are 2 baby magnolia trees i the back yard and this is the 1st bloom off of one of them (pictured above) - the smell reminds me of sweet subtropical spring/summer when i lived over by MotherOcean ♥
i love you

SUNNY SUNBEAMS

I love Sun.  I love you.