Thanks in part to a recent visit from two of my favorite teachers, I have been thinking lately about the ideas of Wholeness and Completeness as being analogous to the concepts of Freedom and Enlightenment. With this particular perspective in mind, I am now looking at En-lightenment as a process of completing our personal Karma, AKA - the work that we came here...
We honor the four directions,
the Sun and the Moon,
the masculine and feminine
We honor the darkness
and we honor the light that
shines in all creation
We honor the past,
the place where we come from;
that which has brought us here
to the present
... and we give thanks for
the learning we have received
We honor the future,
for we know that everything
is given to us by the creator
... and we give...