Pause For Prayer - Great Spirit

We have much to learn from the wisdom of the Native American tradition. This is prayer is attributed to American Indian Lakota Chief Yellow Lark and is dated 1887. Background music is "It is Night Time Again" by Narek Mirzaei of Music of Wisdom. Enjoy!

Transcript

Dear friends,

This is a prayer from the Native American tradition.

I'm told it was translated by Le Cote d'Açut chief,

Yellow Lark,

In 1887.

It's called the Great Spirit Prayer.

O Great Spirit,

Whose voice I hear in the winds,

And whose breath gives life to all the world,

Hear me.

I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty,

And make my eyes ever hold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made,

And my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise,

So that I may understand the things you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.

Help me remain calm and strong in the face of all that comes towards me.

Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me.

I seek strength,

Not to be greater than my brother,

But to fight my greatest enemy,

Myself.

Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes,

So that when life fades as the fading sunset,

My spirit may come to you without shame.

Thank you.

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Thank you for sharing this prayer, which I most likely wouldn’t have found on my own♥️🌸

Beautiful prayer Tony. Much appreciated. Thank you.
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Thank you Tony for this beautiful, simple prayer. Namaste

Dear Tony, thank you for this and all of your beautiful meditations.

Beautiful, I am enjoying starting my day with this.

Native American spirituality is so true and real, thanks for sharing 🙏🏽

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As always a gift, this one of my favorite prayers, Ho!

A wonderfully beautiful prayer! Native American prayers touch my heart deeply. Thank you!

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I love the Native culture.
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This was a fantastic prayer really covered everything that I needed to hear to put me in the right direction today and make me right sized. Thank you for sharing this with us my wonderful friend. I hope you have a beautiful day yourself Namaste.

Thank you for bringing these beautiful words to us Tony. I choked up a bit, the prayer is so moving.🙏🏼

I’m very pleased to have listened to this beautiful prayer. Thank you.

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