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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
August 28, 2023
The focus for today is:
I choose to feel respect and love for all that exists.
Today's inspiration was written by don Alberto Taxo:
Everything has life—minerals, vegetables, water, wind—everything is alive. It just has a different way of presenting itself, but the essence is the same. We all form part of the same existence. We are the crystallization of Mother Nature; we all belong to her.
It is the opposite of what we think these days. We think we dominate nature, that it belongs to us—that plants, animals, minerals, and the earth lie at our feet. No. We are a very tiny part of the whole immensity of life; we come out of her. For this reason we must feel love for everything that exists.
Our elders have told us that in the same way that we give, so we will receive. And we are interested in receiving beautiful gifts. We want life to be good, lovely, happy, and for this reason we feel respect and love for all that exists.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
Contrary Winds and the Value of Spirituality
Written by don Alberto Taxo.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of choosing to feel respect and love for all that exists (today and every day).
Comment from Marie: I talk to the plants in my garden just as I would a human. I ask them if they are thirsty or tell them how good they look. If I break a branch accidentally, I apologize, or if I'm going to be pruning, I tell them ahead of time that I will be giving them a "haircut". I acknowledge their life force, and express my gratitude for their presence in my life.
Our focus for today: I choose to feel respect and love for all that exists.
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RELATED BOOK: The Way of Abundance and Joy
The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo
by Shirley Blancke
Written with don Alberto’s permission and as further fulfillment of the Eagle-Condor prophecy, this book shares don Alberto’s teachings and his simple approaches for building a reciprocal relationship with nature, centered on Sumak Kausay, the way of joy and abundance. As a yachak, a shaman of the elements, don Alberto showed how to relate to and receive help from nature. When we are connected with nature on an emotional and spiritual level it creates joy that is deeply healing and can be accessed during life’s difficulties.
The book discusses traditional Ecuadorian shamanic beliefs and practices, including Andean Inca cosmology; how to connect with plants, animals, air, fire, and water in sacred springs, the ocean, or your shower; and Inca concepts like Pacha, the space-time era in which we live that is now transitioning to a new one of connection and love after 500 years.
For more info and/or to order this book, click here. Also available as an Audiobook and a Kindle edition.
About the Authors
Shirley Blancke is an archaeologist and anthropologist, who has worked with Native Americans in Massachusetts, learned traditional sacred dance from Hawaiian kahunas, and hosted ceremonies for an Oglala Lakota medicine man.
She studied shamanic traditions with Hank Wesselman for 10 years and has worked with Ecuadorian yachak don Alberto Taxo for seven years.
don Alberto Taxo was a revered indigenous teacher and healer in Ecuador who devoted his life to the ancient Andean prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor flying together in the same sky. In service to this vision he came to the United States for over twenty years to teach his Condor wisdom to the land of the mind-oriented Eagle: how to connect on a deep feeling level with all of nature to experience nature as a nurturing mother.
For more information about don Alberto Taxo and his teachings visit DonAlbertoTaxo.com/
