The Beauty Way
We can learn a lot from the teachings of indigenous wisdom in our attempts to walk ‘The Beauty Way’ in appropriate relationship to self, to community and to the Earth. It may guide us on our uncertain path towards a future where humanity has learned to be a regenerative rather than a destructive presence on Earth.
Indigenous place-based and nomadic cultures intimately adapted to and were expressions of the ecosystems and landscapes they inhabited. As the ancestors of all of us, indigenous cultures guided the large part of the 100.000 year old story of our modern species.
The indigenous people of the Navajo tribe describe their traditional way of living as the ‘beauty way’. To them living in right relationship with the Earth is to ‘walk in beauty’ (Hózhóogo Naasháa Doo). The way to walk in beauty is to ‘witness the One-in-All and the All-in-One’.
“Hózhóogo Naasháa Doo — If you walk into the future walk in beauty.”