"....time began for human beings when we slipped out of the present infinite moment, when we went into shame, rage, remorse, grief, sadness, anger, jealousy, greed, and we slipped into the future through our fear, projecting into something that it has not occurred yet. Everything but being here present now. And our minds function in such a way as to pull us away from ourselves. The thoughts do only that.
So, in my dream, we will recover the aspect of the real human being, where we are all infinitely present and that consciousness is what guides us to put together whatever the new is. And that will require, as one of the first steps, to slip out of thought. I know this is possible because by age six, I could sit for hours with no thought coming through my head, but still have awareness. In fact, in Aleut country, we consider thoughts as dumbing us down. And the words that come from these thoughts dumb us down. The true intelligence of the real human being is the entire embodiment of the human being with thoughts not interfering but supporting that which comes from that awareness. And that, I know, we are going to do."
This quote comes from Aleut community leader Larry Merculieff. He was the first Alaska Native person to serve as Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development. He chaired the Indigenous Knowledge sessions of the Global Summit of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change. Co-author of Aleut Wisdom: Stories of an Aleut, Merculieff is a Senior Advisor to the World Wilderness Congress.
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