Category: Anasazi Foundation

Would it surprise you to hear that man’s unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness? You know this already from your own life. For when you have been unhappy, you have been unhappy with others—with your father or mother, your sister or brother, your spouse, your son, your daughter. If unhappiness is with others, wouldn’t it stand to reason that happiness must be with others as well?

We have found that no modern prescriptions heal the human heart so fully or so well as the prescription of the Ancient Ones. “To the hills,” they would say. To which we would add, “To the trees, the valleys, and the streams, as well.” For there is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

Would it surprise you to hear that man’s unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness?

Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.

There is much to be learned from the world around us—far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well—most particularly the wise teachers among them—those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called “Anasazi.

The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward—toward my people—instead of backward, away from them.

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

I have learned that the point of life’s walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart. If I walk far but am angry toward others as I journey, I walk nowhere. If I conquer mountains but hold grudges against others as I climb, I conquer nothing. If I see much but regard others as enemies, I see no one.