The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel Quotes

“I know of a group of assorted ages and races, who are using an old wagon wheel for meditation. It is placed on the ground, appropriately painted in the four significant colors, with ancient symbols designed on the circumference. The person seated at the segment representing serenity tries to live that quality, to be serene in all the varying tests of life, what one mystic has called “the daily startle of the world,” so that the group as a whole can depend upon the serenity of the circle being steadily maintained, safe in the keeping of that person. The one sitting in the seat of truth lives truth in all the facets of personal life, so that at the meeting of the group, and in between meetings, the truth of the circle stays steady and firm. The one representing courage shows courage in the events of daily life, so that the courage of the group is steadily maintained. All these qualities can be called upon by any member of the group in need of them. From time to time the wheel is turned, so that the qualities are represented by different people.”
― Evelyn Eaton, The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel

“The more we meditate on the Medicine Wheel and the Greater Wheel Above, the Cosmic Wheel, relating these to circles, spheres, mandalas of other traditions, the deeper grows our realization of the oneness of the myriad paths leading to the Center.”
― Evelyn Eaton, The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel

“total commitment, we must stick with it, or it will be only another halfhearted attempt to take a few hesitant steps on one of the ways leading to the Center, and away from it. We must go forward firmly, as Dante did, or we may find ourselves again in the dark wood. Each time this happens it gets harder to resume the journey, and whether we go by Dante’s way, on foot, or the Shamanic way “over wonderful slippery water” in a Shadow Canoe, resumption of the journey is what our spirits crave.”
― Evelyn Eaton, The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel

“Spiritually we start from that moment and that place where we decide to re-commit ourselves to the Journey, to re-surrender our wills to the will of the Great Source, to enlist with finality in the Company of Light. Sooner or later this great moment comes to us, but it must be with finality,”
― Evelyn Eaton, The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel