wisdom

Timelessness

By David Little Elk The Lakota expression "Mitakuye Oyas'in" means "we are all related". It also means that "the universe within each of us is interconnected as we are connected to universe around us". Lakota Society places focus on the present because the present thought patterns decide what will happen in the future. When one…Read more Timelessness

JFK Light the Candle

“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing…Read more JFK Light the Candle

JFK Four Questions

For of those to whom much is given, much is required. And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us--recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state--our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be…Read more JFK Four Questions

Tunnel Vision

An Apple a Day!

Jabir b. ‘Umar al-Saksaki narrated from Muhammad b. ‘Isa from Ayyub b. Faddala from Muhammad b. Muslim, who said: Abu ‘Abd Allah, peace be upon him, said: “If people knew what there was in apples, they would treat their sick only with it. Surely it is the quickest thing to benefit the heart, particularly its…Read more An Apple a Day!

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