after #trees are gone

#Elder’s #Meditation of the Day March 31

“The old #Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew the lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to a lack of respect for humans too. So he kept his youth close to its softening influence.”

–Luther #StandingBear, OGLALA SIOUX #quote

When we live in nature it’s like constantly being in school. We are in an environment that is always teaching. We are constantly being reminded that there are laws, Natural Laws, which are running the universe. Once we know these laws and we drift from them, we start to live our lives in a different way.

Soon we become discontent, selfish, and disrespectful. Then, we get in trouble.

If our lives have become this way, it can be reversed by going back to nature to be among our teachers.

#GreatSpirit, teach men, again, the Natural Laws.

Copied with the permission of Don L. Coyhis, from the book Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons