Top 11 Malidoma Patrice Some Quotes

#1. The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

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#2. As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

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#3. One can say, 'Teach me what you know,'
but the better request is,
'Teach me about what teaches you.'

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#4. ... for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit's distress at being forced into narrow boundaries. For the nearly powerless, defying authority is often the only power available.

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#5. Peace is Letting Go
Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

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#6. Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity - the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom - and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

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#7. The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

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#8. Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away ... . The one exception to this rule is the bonfire.

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#9. Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you.

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#10. Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

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#11. It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather

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