Malidoma Patrice Citas

• El poder de la tranquilidad es grande. Genera los mismos sentimientos en todo lo que uno encuentra. Vibra con el ritmo cósmico de la unidad. Está en todas partes, a disposición de cualquiera en cualquier momento. Somos nosotros, la fuerza interior que nos hace estables, confiados y amorosos. Es la contemplación contemplando. La paz es dejar ir, volver al silencio que no puede entrar en el reino de las palabras porque es demasiado puro para ser contenido en palabras. Por eso el árbol, la piedra, el río y la montaña están en silencio.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Letting Go, Oneness, Rivers

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1995). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Penguin Books

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• La curación llega cuando el individuo recuerda su identidad -el propósito elegido en el mundo de la sabiduría ancestral- y vuelve a conectar con ese mundo del Espíritu.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Healing

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• One can say, 'Teach me what you know,'
  but the better request is,
  'Teach me about what teaches you.'

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Teach, Request, Knows

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• As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Long, People, Black History

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1995). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Penguin Books

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• Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Mean, Unique, Psych

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Silence, Shadow, Language

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• La paz es dejar ir... volver al Silencio que no puede entrar en el reino de las palabras porque es demasiado puro para ser contenido en palabras. Por eso el árbol, la piedra, el río y la montaña están en silencio.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Letting Go, Rivers, Silence

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1995). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Penguin Books

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• The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Spiritual, Brother, Thinking

  "Remembering Our Purpose". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1993.

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• I see too many people who jump into spirituality as a shelter to hide from reality. It doesn't work that way. The way it works is for the spirit behind you to follow you wherever you go, like a loyal soldier, and show you how to face up to adversity. If you can't face adversity, you will get locked into a new age perception that everything is fine when it isn't. That makes you vulnerable to being exploited by the person who comes along and says, "I am a psychic. I have studied with this guy or that guy, and I know what you should do".

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Adversity, Reality, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Soul, Growth, Earth

  Malidoma Patrice Some (1997). “Ritual: Power, Healing and Community”, p.22, Penguin

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• La naturaleza es como un lienzo, una pintura de innumerables opciones y posibilidades. En realidad no adoras al espíritu, porque tú también eres espíritu, y los espíritus no se adoran entre sí. Lo que te diferencia del espíritu en general es que estás encerrado en la temporalidad. Tienes un cuerpo, como un trozo de tela que es descomponible. Mientras permanezcas en él, es difícil que tengas las mismas habilidades que tiene el espíritu sin cuerpo. También es fácil cometer errores sobre lo que es real y sobre cómo hacer las cosas de forma eficaz.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Real, Mistake, Different

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• If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be extremely stupid. The white man must be profoundly troubled - probably torn by a huge guilt connected to how he treated the ancestors - to think that villagers would buy the idea that someone died on the cross for us. They would say these beliefs are evidence that the white people killed someone of great importance, probably a diviner and a healer. If you kill a healer, you must make amends by appeasing the healer's spirit.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Estúpido, Hombres, Pensar

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the spirit of nature. To be naked is to be open-hearted. Normally kids stay naked until puberty and even beyond. It was only with the introduction of cheap cloth from the West, through Goodwill and other Christian organisations, that nakedness began to be associated with shame.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Christian, Kids, Expression

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1994). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Tarcher

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• In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Redemption, Urban, Compromise

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Spiritual methods are essential in Africa if you are going to survive politically. My cousin is the chief security officer for the president of Burkina Faso. He knows the key medicine man who works day and night to keep the president in power. These medicine men don't have offices downtown; they live in huts in remote areas, but that is where the real political power resides. A medicine man has no clue about the actual workings of domestic or international politics. All he knows is that a person has a seat of importance somewhere, and his job is to keep that person on that seat.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Spiritual, Cousin, Real

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities that should be replaced by Christianity, the only civilized religion. The West has also long assumed that it should convert tribal cultures to literacy, which is to say an entirely different way of looking at the world, of living in the world. Most Africans who have achieved a comfortable Western lifestyle are Christian. Why? Because it comes with the package: Christian-ity, literacy, and a material lifestyle all come together.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Christian, Long, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism. Colonialism essentially insulted the tribal territories, and as a result, nations came to be composed of an agglomeration of many tribes - 65 in Burkina Faso alone. The Mossi majority sees itself as the owner of Africa; others are just negotiators for representation. That is the way it is now, and it is the sole responsibility of colonialism.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Responsibility, Political, Rivalry

  "VISIONS: Malidoma Some". Interview With D. Patrick Miller, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1995.

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