"All the stones that are around here, each one has a language of its own. Even the earth has a song."

 Wallace Black Elk  Lakota

We missed the reality and the beauty of the forest because we were diverted by the ugliness of some of the trees. We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing.

Big Book  pg. 50

 
We asked ourselves this: Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients about the realm of the material?

Big Book  pg. 51

Grandfather teach me to listen to all my relations.