The Seven Paths
Changing One's Way of Walking In the World
By ANASAZI Foundation
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Copyright © 2013 ANASAZI Foundation
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-60994-919-8
Contents
Foreword by Good Buffalo Eagle.............................................xiPreface....................................................................xiiiBeginnings The Making of a Walking........................................1The Age of "I".............................................................2Away from My People........................................................4My People, Again...........................................................7Nature as Teacher..........................................................9Forward and Backward Walking...............................................101 The Path of Light.......................................................13A Ray of Light.............................................................14Light and Darkness.........................................................15Illumination of the Heart..................................................17The Source of the Light....................................................18Messengers of the Light....................................................202 The Path of Wind........................................................23A Voice on the Wind........................................................24The Breath of Life.........................................................26The Connection of Nature...................................................28The Connection of Man......................................................30Messages on the Wind.......................................................323 The Path of Water.......................................................35The Need for Water.........................................................36Drought in the Soul........................................................38Moisture to the Soul.......................................................39Water's Lessons............................................................41Water's Source.............................................................434 The Path of Stone.......................................................45The Wisdom of Stone........................................................46The Foundation of Peace....................................................47To Be as a Stone...........................................................49Forward and Backward Use of Stone..........................................51Stone's Question...........................................................535 The Path of Plants......................................................55The Secret of Plants.......................................................56The Service of Plants......................................................57The Source of Beauty.......................................................59Counterfeits...............................................................60Hope for the Desert........................................................626 The Path of Animals.....................................................65A Badger and a Stone.......................................................66The Language of Animals....................................................68Faces among the Animals....................................................69Honoring Creation..........................................................71The Offering of Animals....................................................737 The Path of "WE"........................................................77The Story of My People.....................................................78My View of My People.......................................................80Awakening to WE............................................................81The Lie in the "I".........................................................83The Creed of WE............................................................85Destinations Forward Walking..............................................87Lone Walking...............................................................88The Step to a New Life.....................................................90Together Walking...........................................................93Words to a Friend..........................................................96About the Art..............................................................98Acknowledgments............................................................101About ANASAZI Foundation...................................................103
CHAPTER 1
The Path of Light
A Ray of Light
A few days into my journey, still kicking against nature,
I swung at what turned out to be poison oak.
I cursed my carelessness and
my anticipated discomfort and pain.
Truly all creation is against me, I murmured.
* * *
Later that day, I tripped in a bone-dry creek bed,
smashing my knee against a rock.
I remember grimacing in pain toward an empty sky.
As I lay there, I recalled words my father had spoken to me
while on a hunt: "WE who lose our footing have lost our
way," he had said. "Our walking is in darkness."
* * *
What did he mean by walking in darkness? I wondered, as
I picked myself up and limped on my way. And what did
darkness have to do with stumbling in daylight?
* * *
Despite my anger toward my father, in that moment I had to
accept that I had seen my father, and the great ones among
our people, sure-footed and rooted upon the earth as any
tree or plant, yet as light as a seed upon the wind.
This memory awakened my life to light
and for a moment brightened a son's hurting heart.
Light and Darkness
Young friend, each morning offers lessons in light.
For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths:
Light chases away darkness.
* * *
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