The symbol of
wholeness, represented by the medicine wheel, is still being used in D/Lakota
ceremonies today. The center where the "X" crosses is considered the
home of Tunkasila, Wakan-Tanka, God. I speculated, If this is the symbol of
wholeness, the symbol of the psyche, with Wakan-Tanka at the center, then
Wakan-Tanka or God would be within you.
Dr. A.C.
Ross (Ehanamani) Lakota
Actually
we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the
fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of
other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power
greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human
lives, are facts as old as man himself.
We
finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as
much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search
fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the
Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that
He may be found. It was so with us.
Big
Book pg. 55
Grandfather,
for this day, let me remember that you are the center.