Let’s start off the year with a quote that I have come across from a blog post that I found via wordpress.com. (As an aside and to be fully transparent, I recently clicked on one of the wordpress.com highlighted blogs–www.readingmichael.com–and then eventually clicked on http://www.defendmichael.com/?p=456 which got me to the quote that I really liked).
I am told that I have a 1/32nd or 1/16th portion of my lineage from the Cherokee tribe so I presume that I might be slightly biased :).
Here it is:
There is a story of an old Cherokee who told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside of every person – it is a battle between two wolves. One wolf is life-taking: it is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, guilt, arrogance, self-pity, resentment, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other wolf is life-giving: it is joy, peace, love, hope serenity, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather which wolf won. The old Cherokee simply replied, ‘The one you feed’. I am working on only feeding the wolf who gives life.
Let us all think about the wolf we choose to feed as we start our new year.
Happy New Year folks.
Phil Black 