"Fight them. Never become a red white man like the coffee chiefs. White men work.
A man who works cannot dream. And it is only through dreams that we attain wisdom."
"A man of the People does not grovel at the feet of his spirits the way other tribes do...He doesn't plead or say he is unworthy. Nor does he need stupid water or bull-nettle berries or wokowi, the cactus buttons, to help him see his vision. His dreams come to him unaided, through the strength of his own will. He purges his body to be clean and worthy. He opens his mind to receive the messages of the spirits. He rids himself of the distractions of the senses, of pain and of hunger. He learns what it is to be absolutely free of the things of this world and to soar above them like an eagle. He reaches another plateau of being. He knows what it is like to be one with creation."
Lucia Robson, RIDE THE WIND
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