**Hopi Indians leader White Eagle commented on the situation we are in a few days ago (by situation, I mean You-Know-Who and his South African support-billionaire wreaking havoc in D.C., and elsewhere)
“This moment that mankind is experiencing now can be seen as either a door or a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the door is yours. If you absorb information 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, and pessimistic, you will fall into this hole.
But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, use the time to rethink life and death, to care for yourself and others, you are walking through the portal.
Keep your home, keep your body safe. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone else.
Don’t underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader perspective. There is a social issue in this crisis but also a spiritual issue. They both go hand in hand.
Without the social dimension we fall into bigotry. Without the spiritual dimension, we perish in pessimism and meaninglessness.
Pack your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.
Learn the resistance from the example of the Indian and African people: We are and still are being threatened, extinct. But we never stopped singing, dancing, building bonfires and having joy.
Don’t feel guilty for feeling happy in these difficult times. It doesn’t help at all to be sad or angry. Resistance is resistance through joy!
You have every right to be strong and positive. And there’s no other way to do this than by adopting a beautiful, cheerful and empathetic attitude.
This has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world) – It’s a resistance strategy.
When we enter the door, we are given a new worldview because we have faced our fears and overcome adversity. That’s all you can do now:
– Seek solace in the storm
– Keep calm, pray daily
– Make it a habit to meet the Holy everywhere, everyday.
Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.
**Emma Goldman (a paraphrase of a longer prose statement, actually!): “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”