There’s an Ojibwa understanding that when we die, we find ourselves on the beach of a vast lake. Here we see the footprints of those who have died before us - people who have crossed the lake, leaving the Village of the Living and journeying to the Village of the Dead. The newly dead cannot make that journey alone, however. They need help from both sides. Those in the Village of the Living must build for their dead a canoe out of love to propel out into the lake with the energy of our grief. Those in the Village of the Dead reach out and receive that canoe, using the energy of their joy to pull it towards them, celebrating the person’s arrival with the same intensity as the living mourn the person’s departure.

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

It’s a strange gift, freedom of speech, you have to give it to your opponents if you want it for yourself.

Ten years and a pandemic later. I still choose you.

Yaşamanın zor, insanları tanımanın kolay olduğu zamanlardı. Şimdi yaşamak kolay, insanları tanımak zor.

Bazılarımızın hayatı böyle işte; darmadağınık, yarım yamalak.
Öyle bir şehirde yaşıyoruz ki, bak ne ordayız ne orda...
Bir deniz koca bir şehri bile ortasından ikiye bölüyor.
İnsan nasıl tam olsun ki?

Ne çok özlem, ne çok hüzün, ne çok sevinç birikmiş meğer...Ama hepsi aynı kapıya çıkıyor sonunda.
İnsan dediğin sevdiğini yanında istiyor işte.
Sevdiği herkesi...
Mesele bu.

Tree of life: All of life and creation are interconnected as branches or roots of a great tree

Ancestral healing: Bringing order within the morphic field

Ancestors help living remain living and become guides to them.

From the wound comes the salve. The place of the deepest wounding will provide your salvation.

We recover the person we are intended to be.

Hayat deneyip yanildiklarimizdir.

True healing is not just internal coherence but it’s coherence between us and the outside world, between us and each other, between the physical and the non-physical part of ourselves.

You are a good guardian of memories.

Biz felaketlerin oncesinde cok zayif, felaketlerin sonrasinda cok kuvvetli bir toplumuz. Sulh zamaninda gelisen toplumlar gelismis toplumlardir. Zorlama olmadan da konfor alanindan cikmayi ogrenmeliyiz.

Her insan evrene bir mandala olarak gelir. Bildiklerini harmanlayip sunmak gidisatin bir parcasidir.

It’s not how Canadian you are, it’s who you are in Canada.

Her formda bilgi kendi zamaninda acilir, yerlesir, bedenlenir.

Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedom and security are yours.

Be aware, be non-striving, be in the moment and accept things as they are. Just do it.

To be undivided and unfragmented, to be completely present, is to love. To pay attention is to love.

Let’s not become one of those couples that spend more time analyzing their relationship than being in one.

God doesn’t give an elephant a trunk it cannot raise.