“Do I want the present moment to be my friend or enemy? The present moment is inseparable from life so you are really deciding what kind of relationship you want with life. Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move. Become friendly, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes and soon you will see the results. Life becomes friendly towards you; people become helpful, circumstances cooperative. One decision changes your entire reality. But that one decision you have to make again and again and again – until it becomes natural to live in such a way. The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego.The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since it’s very nature compels it to ignore, resist or devalue the now.Time is what the ego lives on.The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future and your sense of self depends on your past for your identity and on the future for it’s fulfillment. Fear,anxiety, expectation, regret, guilt, anger are the dysfunctions of the time bound state of consciousness.” ~Eckhart Tolle

“We are the People of the Earth united under the Creator’s Law with a sacred covenant to protect and a responsibility to extend Life for all future generations. We are expressing deep concern for our shared future and urge everyone to awaken spiritually. We must work in unity to help Mother Earth heal so that she can bring back balance and harmony for all her children.” ~Chief Arvol Looking Horse

For the next 4 days, a collection of ranchers, and first nations have set up an encampment in front of The White House. It is called CIA “Cowboy Indian Alliance” to oppose the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline that is proposed to run through their land. Together people are coming together to protect sacred land and waters. History in the making!
Learn more here: http://www.rejectandprotect.org

“The earth recognizes people in whom life flowers. There is a sensuousness, a centeredness, a grace to their movement. There is a relaxed gentility of power flowing quietly within and beneath their action. There is a humble assuredness about them, a reverence, a sense of humor and a sense of the sacred entwined. They are the magical people, for whom the earth has longed.” ~Ken Carey

Art by Lisete Alcalde

“We know who we are. We are the dispossessed, the outcasts, and the outsiders, rebels without a cause who have upturned the mulch of our dead lives and seeded those fertile fields with incendiary visions of our future selves. Having already subverted the norm, we renunciate dominator culture’s status quo of everything and drift happliy disconnected—babes in the abyss—wavering in the ambiguity fog of dislocation. Free-floating between old worlds and new, guided only by the shining paths of mother evolution. We have passed over, we have passed the point of no-return and since there is no turning back, we celebrate the momentum lifting us on the wings of perception, grace, and whatever skills we have earned from surviving the inevitable catastrophe of self. Only when we are over, does our real life begin.” ~Antero Alli

Art by Corina Chirila