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“Your head is only there to support the heart by explaining the details. Your heart is the true seat of your power.”
“Until your heart took over, you were lost in the heavy judgment of your demons.”
“That’s the way the passages work, they amplify and magnify.”
“That’s why we all go through the Taquatsi,” Adltleena says. “We’re not really human until we open the heart.”
“Taquatsi gives you that gift in the pitch darkness where the solution’s visible only in that tiny light of hope. This light is so small. We’ve all been to that altar and we forever remember its truth. You have been there to see that tiny light through the eyes of your heart. That light isn’t visible to the head.”
“There it is,” Xochina whispers. “The word is Maraakame — human consciousness that’s connected to all things. This is who we are to each other.”
“When you feel lost, you’re believing the power of the illusion.” She rests her kind hand on my knee, “Why believe that it’s a long time . . . believe that it’s a good time, my son.” When she says my son it soothes my concern about leaving. “Mother is saying, be a witness not a victim,”
“What will I be able to do to maintain this?” “You must become unshakable and unmovable,” Adltleena answers. “I’ve lived with your societies and I know their widespread use of guilt. This guilt is sticky and it’s easy to fall into its trap.
live our lives to unify ourselves. This is not about being a better person, this is about being a person period.”
“You’ll find that you must refresh yourself each day,” Adltleena reminds me. “To tolerate the stress of your modern world, you’ll have to create Taquatsi in your mind every day.”
we’re just many bodies with one mind, held in life by the same heart.
“The human opportunity,” Adltleena reminds us, “is about reducing life to a simple process.”
“Here we’re blessed that Taquatsi teaches us to face this fear,” I say. “What can we use in the out-world?” “Consistency,” he answers.
“The messenger of the soul is intuition.” “How completely you’re able to trust the self is the measure of your connection.” “See beyond the illusions of this Great Reflection.” “You must take the step of risk with the strength of faith.” “When you see your reflection in everything, life begins.”
“Sadness is when we block our ability to experience our oneness . . . our union,”
“In life, it’s vital to prompt yourself from time to time, to remain aware of each moment — aware with each breath, otherwise true reality becomes a fantasy and the fantasy becomes real. The reality that is truth, the foundation of the Universe, quickly vanishes or fades into the background as the worldly experience takes over. There has to be a practice that you attach to each day to bring back that true perspective and perception of what is actually real in this world.”
“That which you can imagine — you can desire, and that which you can desire — you can manifest as your destiny. It’s a cosmic law,” he said. “The universe always provides the exact time and exact space you need to pass your dreams into and this is even more absolute when your knowing is unwavering. We can carry our destiny through this keyhole of time /space except that which we doubt, fear, or refuse to forgive.”
“It’s going to be the new challenge,” I respond, “but I’m definitely up for it.” “That’s the nature of life,” Adltleena says. “You have to be on top of it every moment, every breath. That’s what we do here.”
You have to feel their pain and have compassion for them even when they offend you. Remember, they’re lost and they spend their life worshipping money in order to buy their way out of this discomfort.”
the more obvious things that the Wirikuta teachings can show this world. It’s clear how people have lost the joy of community and now rely on their gadgets and their conveniences instead of each other. Every person needs the support of every other person around them or their dreams will seem impossible. Community is what we have in the Wirikuta and that’s what we need to build here in the world. You can work all you want, but without a strong community supporting you, even the efforts with tremendous purpose will become exhausting. When this is missing it pulls people back into their fear and
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Patience is not waiting — patience is knowing Whatever you are to be, you already are Time will sequence the events
It is an equation designed from the combination of our genealogical heritage (who brought our physical nature onto this Earth); our chronological time with all of its intentions, commitments, experiences and responses to these experiences; and our cosmological legacy (what we will be known for in posterity).