Quote from A Seat at the Table

A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom 

by Huston Smith with Phil Cousineau and Gary Rhine

University of California Press, Berkeley, California   © 2006   253 pp.

"Darkness Song" - an Iroquois Initiation Song

We wait in the darkness!
Come, all ye who listen,
Help in our night journey:
Now no sun is shining;
Now no-star is glowing;
Come show us the pathway:
The night is not friendly;
She closes her eyelids;
The moon has forgotten us,
We wait in the darkness!  (p.77)


"We have, at the very core of our being, more power than anything human kindness has ever made ever since the beginning of time. That's how powerful we are. The Creator gave us this gift. So no matter what has been done to us, any type of abuse or historical grief, whatever has been done to us, that we have all the power internally to be able to overcome anything. We can, in any given second, start that healing process and walk a healing road."  (p. 119)      -- Gene Thin Elk (Lakota)

-- quote submitted by Jennifer Knight


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