AN OLD CHEROKEE TALE OF TWO WOLVES - Which one will you feed today?

[nicolya christi]

AN OLD CHEROKEE TALE OF TWO WOLVES

Which one will you feed today?
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An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." 

He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. 

The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." 
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We must remain ever mindful of our choices, most especially when it comes to which wolf within that we feed.

Which Wolf Will You Feed Today?

..Will you feed Love or Fear? 

..Will you feed the personality, or the Soul? 

..Will you feed ego or Self? 

..Will you feed the Heart, or the mind?

Whichever you choose will grow strong and become the most influential.

* We are Creating our Reality in every moment - 

* Let us become Masters of Creating Reality Consciousness.. 

* Let us Create a Life where we are Living our Highest Potential.. 

* Let us Create the Life whereby our most longed for dreams become our everyday Lived Reality.

We can do this simply by Choosing, in each moment, which wolf it is that we feed.

Waves of Diamond Love

Nicolya ♥♥

[Barbara Smith Stoff]

Dear Nicolya...I grew up with a picture of a white wolf hanging over my bed....love this story! And just now I read in the New York Times that another White Buffalo Calf has been born on the east coast of the U.S. 

I am told by my 'inner voice' that the Native Americans in the spirit world are actively helping us on the North American continent to successfully navigate through these times. We wrote of the Sacred White Buffalo in 'conscious evolution'... (pasted in below) I believe that this rare birth has been happening a few times just lately...I like to think of the significance now in this 'critical passage'....http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/nyregion/sacred-white-bison-is-bo...

A Bison So Rare It’s Sacred

[[[[[…Mrs. White Mouse, a member of the Oglala Lakota people, said a white bison was believed to be a manifestation of the White Buffalo Calf Maiden, or Ptesan Wi. She is revered as a prophet, who in a time of famine taught the Lakotas seven sacred rituals and gave them their most important symbol of worship, the sacred pipe….]]]]]]

 

Chapter One

Hope Creates the Future:

Individual Responsibility Comes of Age

 

As in the legend of the appearance of the White Buffalo Woman to the Sioux, we seem to trust, historically, that when we are in need of a correction, a time period of harmony and peace, the benign feminine energy emerges once more into the forefront. Harmony and peace are our deepest longing today and the search for the feminine energy is the greatest hope of many. We long for transformation. When we are truly in need we understand the input of the feminine energy as the solution. It is our greatest force, the force of love. With the feminine permeating our mind and body, we have our spiritual power, the power of love, to bring our inner hope into our outer accomplishments. All limitations are shattered. There are no limitations to the power of love. Such love power, our fulfillment, cannot be abused if the “love power” is real. We long to see the self-centered ego become transformed into love through our growth process.

 

It may be interesting here to relate Hassrick’s interpretation of the appearance of “The Beautiful One,” the Buffalo Maiden, to the Native American Sioux. It offers illustration of how a society dealt with its inner conflict. According to their legend, she made her appearance more than ten generations ago and the people still follow her instructions for religious ceremonies. She told them many things but the heart of her message dealt with the position of women in the society. The women are consoled for their difficult life and told that, by these very difficulties and hardships, they help life find its way and give much comfort to others. The men are instructed to be “kind and loving to women and children.” The Sioux male apparently lived with an inner conflict of greed and lust versus respect and temperance.

 

The Oedipean nature of The White Buffalo Maiden legend may owe part of its origin to the masculine character of the society…That the Sioux chose for their tutelary deity a woman, rather than a man, indicates their concern to revere feminine qualities. The occurrence of such a divine figure among any people may be due in large part to a critical need for reform that the people themselves cannot effect. The code of behavior which the Buffalo Maiden brought suggests the social crisis which the Sioux at one time faced. Furthermore, the Sioux goddess brought her people a code of behavior, a set of commandments which included interpretative information which explained the commands. Interestingly, they appear to have been phrased in the positive “Be kind to women, for they are weak” rather than in the familiar “Thou shalt not”—without explanation. That such commands should have been forthcoming at all seems to indicate an internal moral problem among the Sioux at the time. (Royal B. Hassrick. The Sioux: Life and Customes of a Warrior Society. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964, pp. 217-225)

We are in need of a correction now. Let us call for the emergence of a new archetype. Let us envision, rising from the mighty seas below our conscious creativity, the birth of Venus and Adonis with hands joined—standing together upon the Double Sunrise Shell. Let us imagine the guidance of this double archetype, like Baucis and Philemon guarding the temple, as we turn to our tasks of building the future. … Clearly, we are given the choice to destroy or to walk in love. We can destroy if we choose to. We can live in love for all of creation if we have the courage. Even with those opposing choices the issue is in doubt. Will we act upon our hopes and prayers or do nothing and allow the destruction to follow? Bruno Beitelheim said it in this way, “If we do not want to change and develop then we might as well remain in a deathlike sleep.” (from CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: THE DANCE OF INTUITION AND INTELLECT by Sheldon Stoff and Barbara Smith Stoff)

Sacred, White Bison Is Born in a Connecticut Farm

www.nytimes.com

A white bison, a revered symbol by some American Indians, was born a month ago...