{"id":60957,"date":"2025-08-13T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60957"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:37:05","slug":"wise-words-from-hopi-indian-chief-white-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60957","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words From Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hopi_Indian_Chief_White_Eagle.jpg\" alt=\"Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle\" width=\"701\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hopi_Indian_Chief_White_Eagle.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hopi_Indian_Chief_White_Eagle-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented a few days ago on the current situation:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into this hole.<\/p>\n<p>But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, then you will walk through the portal.<\/p>\n<p>Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. The two go hand in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism.<\/p>\n<p>Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated. But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times.<\/p>\n<p>Being sad or angry doesn\u2019t help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!<\/p>\n<p>You have the right to be strong and positive. And there\u2019s no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture.<\/p>\n<p>Has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a resistance strategy.<\/p>\n<p>When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we faced our fears and difficulties. This is all you can do now:<br \/>\n&#8211; Serenity in the storm<br \/>\n&#8211; Keep calm, pray everyday<br \/>\n&#8211; Make a habit of meeting the sacred everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented a few days ago on the current situation: &#8220;This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. 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