“When we act from the heart, we know that every human being is on a sacred journey of evolution, and that all circumstances are teachers who meet us on the path.”

— White Buffalo

White Buffalo tells us that when we are heart centered, we understand that compassion has nothing to do with rescuing others from their pain or allowing ourselves to be manipulated out of fear. Instead, the compassionate heart knows that pity and sympathy are artificial feelings, born of misunderstanding the human journey. Pity dishonors the unique lessons each of us are here to learn. When we judge the life experience of others as wrong, and seek to rescue them from their problems, our motivation often has more to do with our own discomfort at witnessing pain. It is only when we learn to honor all human journeys as sacred that we can experience true compassion. White Buffalo teaches us that compassion has its foundation in seeing the other as fully powerful to transform his or her life. He defines compassion as knowing what it would take for the sufferer to overcome his pain and fear of uncertainty in that moment, and make a choice that is self-respecting, self-honoring and self-loving, in spite of what the sufferer has lost or what challenges he faces. Only when we are able to see the other as powerful can our behavior be consistent with the truth that all crises are enormous opportunities for growth and transformation. Only with this truth as the foundation of our awareness, we are then able to know when giving is destructive to another’s evolution, and when it is actually supportive and helpful.

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“Everywhere, people pray to be relieved of their suffering. There is an antidote. It is to overcome any fears that are standing in the way of the full expression of what is joyful for you, no matter what happened before this moment, or what you believe will happen in the future.”
— Grandfather White Elk

Grandfather White Elk teaches us that most of the suffering we undergo is self-induced, a figment of the imagination that paints scenarios of what it fears. He says it is certainly possible to create wealth based on fear; people do this all the time. He reminds us, however, that what is created with fear as its foundation will generate and support more fear-based thinking, and this will rob it of its potential to be joyful and freeing. Fear of the future and regret about the past are what cause most of the suffering we endure. We prejudge the moment, without allowing its true meaning and full potential to emerge. The path of joy is thereby lost to us. It is also the case that if we are riding a wave of excitement over a belief we have in a certain outcome, the consequences are the same. In fact, Grandfather White Elk says there is no energetic difference between the motives we hold based on fear and the motives we hold based on excitement. Both motives are based on what we imagine about the future. The path of joy is one forged in what is real and true for us in any present moment, even if that moment is painful. In every now, our access to what is joyful is fully available to us. Every present moment beckons us with this very simple choice: will we choose based on our fear of uncertainty, or will we choose based on what is real and actualize-able now? If what we choose to bring into our lives is to deliver freedom, fun, ease and delight, it must be created from an intentional focus on these important essences.

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“Transformation occurs in a cycle that must necessarily begin with the death of what we once believed to be true.”

— Spotted Eagle

Spotted Eagle tells us that change can happen as a gradual process of reframing our understanding of things, or it can happen at the level of a transformation. If it is a transformation we seek, rehashing old thoughts or trying harder will not help us if we continue to employ old concepts, methods and techniques. The new ideas we embrace must significantly alter our perceptions, behavior and choices if they are to operate in our consciousness as new, transformative thinking. Spotted Eagle says that all transformations are initiated by a collision between old thinking and new. He uses the word collision because it signifies something that launches us on a different life-trajectory than the one we were on before. To transform what we have already created, we must move beyond the patterns that are the framework of the old reality. We must move into an entirely new frame of reference, one that is capable of actually destroying and replacing the thinking that created what we now want to transform.

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“Essence, the feeling experience we desire from having what we want, has an indivisible relationship to intention. If we think of the spiritual principle of intention as a goal or a plan to have a certain thing manifest in a certain way, at a certain time, then we have missed the point entirely.”

— Spotted Eagle

Spotted Eagle tells us that the principle of intention is often misunderstood. In the popular version of this concept, simply imagining ourselves in a clear picture of the form we want the future to take is all that is required to get our thinking in order. Setting goals and making plans, in this way of thinking, is all that is required to give the Universe its marching orders. Most all of us who have tried to create in this way realize that this method does not work, and we are told that what is wrong is that we are either not clear enough about what we want, or that we do not believe in this future enough to make it happen. Spotted Eagle teaches us that both of these criticisms are based on a misunderstanding of what intention really is. Spotted Eagle says that if we want our reality to be different than the one we have now, we must employ new thinking in a life-altering way. We must adopt new truths that function more powerfully than our conditioning. He says we can start with an intention to transform the areas of our lives that are not working, beginning with whatever we have already created that we now resist. We must then act on our intention by fearlessly examining the fears and issues at work that are undermining our self-confidence, distorting our perceptions and limiting our choices. Most importantly, we must learn to distinguish between what we make up out of fear of the future from that which is simply uncertain. If we are to shift the thinking that is creating our reality, we must set a firm intention to allow our most treasured essences—the feelings we want our lives to give us—to guide our behavior and our choices. This and only this, he says, will open a path before us that will lead us precisely to where our hearts dream of being.

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“The truth can only be known in the now.”

— White Buffalo

White Buffalo tells us the truth is not static. Like everything in the Universe, the truth is constantly evolving. What was true for us, even in the moment just passing, may not be true for us in the present moment.White Buffalo teaches us that willingness is the key to knowing truth. The reason is simple: willingness allows us to embrace whatever is honestly there in the present moment, without having to deny or resist anything that may be confronting us. If we are emotional in the now, we must recognizing that this distorts our perception of the now-based truth. When we distort truth with our emotions, we are typically not in present time, but instead filtering our perception of the now through past experience or through our fears and fantasies about the future. When this happens, we must wait and allow the passage of time to bring us the clarity we seek. Truths that we discover in the now may be quite familiar to us or they may present a dramatic challenge to beliefs we hold with great attachment, conviction and emotional charge. As we become attuned to higher guidance, we find that many beliefs and opinions fall by the wayside. This higher wisdom allows us to come to each moment, willing to change our minds about anything we once thought certain.

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“To heal your emotions, you must identify decisions that you have confused with the truth, and then un-decide them. If you are unwilling to change your mind, you will not be able to heal.”

— Spotted Eagle

Spotted Eagle teaches us that our fear-based beliefs deprive us of our energy and our power. The minute we decide something is true, a filter is in place, and whatever does not match up to our decision is filtered out or distorted to match the decision.

To have a belief, he says, we quite literally invest our energy in it. The belief becomes reality for us when we accept it into our thinking as a pattern of perception. It is important to realize that, as young children, we adopt many patterns of perception in order to feel safe and more in control of what happens to us.

Traumatic events in our lives prompt us to create or reinforce fear-based thoughts. Changing our minds about what we have distorted is an integral part of healing our emotions. That which is fear-based and conditioned in us must be acknowledged and surrendered so that we can release the trauma energetically and begin to heal.

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“When Spirit has dominion over Mind, Mind flourishes in a healthy state. By moving your consciousness into present time, Mind’s fear of the future has no context in which to operate.”

—Spotted Eagle

Spotted Eagle teaches that present time is our access to transformation because the present moment holds a context for living where there is no future to avoid and no past to repeat or change. The future we imagine is not real. If it were, everything we imagine would come to pass. The irony is that when we imagine the future, especially the one we fear, we undergo the experience of our fearful fantasy as if it had actually happened. Spotted Eagle asks us to recognize that most of what we fear does not actualize. The truth is, we get what we want far more often than what we fear. This is an extraordinary fact, especially when we consider the amount of energy we spend worrying about things that never happen. Life also brings quite painful events that take us completely by surprise. When this happens, it is vital to our well-being that we not allow Mind to project our present-moment anguish onto what we imagine about the future. Authentic pain—anger, sadness, confusion and fear of uncertainty—when allowed to flow simultaneously with our experience of essence, eventually concludes to peace and balance with the passage of time.

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“Every unpleasant situation is an opportunity to examine our emotions and heal them. If we invite our pain to teach us, we can be fully present, even when the circumstances are painful.”

— Grandfather White Elk

Grandfather White Elk says that our issues are the remnants of past emotional trauma that we have not resolved. He says we go through life with our issues acting as a distorting influence on our perception of experience. The force of our emotional reaction is often the best indication we have that an issue is distorting our perception. When we are undergoing a painful event, we experience fear, shame, blame, guilt, and indignation with an intensity that is often not appropriate to what is actually happening in present time. During such an event, the present moment can be swallowed up by the false reality of the issue. The issue overtakes us, and we live it as if it were real. All painful events are opportunities to reclaim our power from fear and our issues. When we identify the issue, we can see it for what it is, and despite the enormous emotional charge we have on it, we can see that it is not the truth in present time. To be our authentic selves, living our authentic lives, we must embrace that emotional pain is as necessary to our health and well-being as the physical pain that lets us know when we are injuring ourselves. If we pay attention to what is painful, we can stop and examine what there is to be learned so that we can break old behavior patterns and make healthier, self-valuing choices that can truly transform our quality of life.

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“Fear that you will not be loved, accepted and protected; fear that you will not be able to create the resources you need; fear that you will have to be subservient to a taskmaster—these fears are driving you to be out-of-power. They create anxiety that keeps you from being your authentic self, living your authentic life and following your dreams.”

— Spotted Eagle

Spotted Eagle tells us that the human animal in us bases his choices on his neediness to create certainty. He says we do this because our biology and the culture that results from it have a huge investment in being afraid of the uncertain future.

The culture tells us to abandon our authentic desires for joy, creativity, ease and freedom. Instead, it encourages us to do whatever it takes to become something we are not and to spend our lives chasing after the illusions of security and control over what happens to us. While it constantly raises the specter of personal catastrophe, the culture goes on to manipulate us through its parade of artificial icons whose traits it demands we emulate.

If we are to free ourselves to actualize our unlimited potential for the feeling experiences we long for in our hearts—what he calls: essence—we must have the courage to be our authentic selves, and embrace the emotional risk of having what we truly want in life.

Spotted Eagle tells us that every human being is here to reclaim power from fear of uncertainty. He asks us to take dominion over our lives by recognizing that the Earth plane is a classroom about fear, and that overcoming fear is the only spiritual path that any of us is undertaking.

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´´Our greatest obstacle to personal creativity is resistance to what we have already created. When we attempt to create with this resistance as our foundation, we ensure that struggle will be the first result or our endeavors. The reason is quite simple: what has already been created cannot open a doorway to our unmanifested potential, where our most intriguing possibilities accumulate over the course of our lifetimes. To access these possibilities, we must be willing to move our awareness into that infinite creative reservoir of what is unformed, unrealized, and unforeseen.”

White Buffalo, from Quantum Creativity

White Buffalo teaches us to carefully examine the resistance we feel when what we have created is unpleasant, disappointing, or even frightening. He urges us to recognize that resistance to what is cannot form a foundation for creating what is joyful because our energy is invested in attempting to amend the past, to fix what we think is broken or to deny what is so. If we surrender to the moment, where the past and future do not exist, we discover something so much more powerful: our unmanifested potential. Here is the doorway to our success and the path to freedom. To explore our unmanifested potential requires a willingness to give up our illusions of security and embark on a journey into the uncharted territory that lies beyond our limited, fear-based thinking. Living our lives from the reservoir of our untapped potential is enormously gratifying. From this place, we learn to create in a landscape that has fewer limitations and far more possibilities. Here, our intentions have clarity and can move us forward, no matter what our circumstances may be. The feeling experience we desire—to live joyful, creative, essence-rich lives—is thereby inevitable.

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