endlessly seeking
to be honest, i'm speechless most of the time. i think and think and think and thinking these days feels to me like diving headfirst into fractals.
why is it that when i read words written or spoken by native americans, i feel as if i am hearing the words of my own people? why is it that these words resonate with me on a deeper level than almost everything else i am exposed to?
"The world is tired, sick, and exhausted by a war which has brought home to us the realization that our boasted progress is after all mainly industrial and commercial - a powerful force, to be sure, but being so unspiritual, not likely to be lasting or stable. On the other hand, being so powerful it might have been expected to be destructive and therefore cruel. The intellectual development connected with it has been largely heartless and soulless. The education of the child has subordinated his higher instincts to the necessities of business. Christ has been preached in vain, since his most unmistakable and unequivocal declarations are directly opposed to our excess of material development, social injustice and the accumulation of wealth."
-Charles Eastman, 1919
why is it that when i read words written or spoken by native americans, i feel as if i am hearing the words of my own people? why is it that these words resonate with me on a deeper level than almost everything else i am exposed to?
"The world is tired, sick, and exhausted by a war which has brought home to us the realization that our boasted progress is after all mainly industrial and commercial - a powerful force, to be sure, but being so unspiritual, not likely to be lasting or stable. On the other hand, being so powerful it might have been expected to be destructive and therefore cruel. The intellectual development connected with it has been largely heartless and soulless. The education of the child has subordinated his higher instincts to the necessities of business. Christ has been preached in vain, since his most unmistakable and unequivocal declarations are directly opposed to our excess of material development, social injustice and the accumulation of wealth."
-Charles Eastman, 1919