The future will be written with the language of the past | Marlikka Perdrisat | TEDxSydney 

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"For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse." ~ David Abram "Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth." ~ David Suzuki "If we are to attempt to understand Indigenous philosophy it has to begin with the profound obligation to land." ~ Bruce Pascoe "Intuition is the language of our loved ones. It is a knowing beyond reason that they are still right here." ~ Angie Corbett-Kuiper "In this stillness, I am the trees alive with singing. I am the sky everywhere at once. I am the snow and the wind bearing stories across geographies and generations. I am the light everywhere and descending. I am my heart evoking drum song. I am my spirit rising. In the smell of these sacred medicines burning, I am my prayers and my meditation, and I am time captured fully in this now. I am a traveller on a sacred journey through this one shining day.” ~ Richard Wagamese “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” ~ Toni Morrison "Go as a river... " ~ Thich Nhat Hanh "Voices... echoing from heart, heritage and homeland -- resonate coherence, expanse and eternity." ~ Paul Jung

ME: Why am I alive? OLD WOMAN: Because everything else is. ME: No. I mean the purpose. OLD WOMAN: That is the purpose. To learn about your relatives. ME: My family? OLD WOMAN: Yes. The moon, stars, rocks, trees, plants, water, insects, birds, mammals. Your whole family. Learn about that relationship. How you’re moving through time and space together. That’s why you’re alive. ~ Richard Wagamese To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you And know there is more That you can't see, can't hear Can't know except in moments Steadly growing, and in languages That aren't always sound but other Circles of motion. Like eagle that Sunday morning Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky In wind, swept our hearts clean With sacred wings. We see you, see ourselves and know That we must take the utmost care And kindness in all things. Breathe in, knowing we are made of All this, and breathe, knowing We are truly blessed because we Were born, and die soon within a True circle of motion, Like eagle rounding out the morning Inside us. We pray that it will be done In beauty. In beauty. ~ 'Eagle Poem' by Joy Harjo