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The medicine wheel is the Universe.
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It is change, life, death, birth, and learning. It is the cycle of all things that exist, and each person is a medicine wheel. Each choice is a wheel: a thousand , thousand possible futures lie ahead of each choice we make. To choose is to change the wheel that you are on.
All growth is an act of creation. A walk on the wheel of the plants will teach us much about ourselves.
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A little root can crack rocks. Plants also have the power to heal, to give food, to bring beauty into our lives. All life is part of a growing process, and at each moment we must choose to change or to hold our pattern. A healthy life requires that we learn, become more and more conscious, and move forward.
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Together with the plants, minerals, and animals, we make up the body and consciousness of a single living organism--Earth. Our movement on this earth is related to and dependent upon all its other parts. During the daytime we breathe the oxygen that plants create; they breathe the carbon dioxide we create and it fuels photosynthesis. Thus, the fruits, vegetables and plants that we eat bring the light of the sun into our bodies. We can choose to see all aspects of creation separate units or as parts of the one life that is within us all.
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We are a life force, moving along with other life forces. Our lives are interrelated with all the other life forces in the Medicine Wheel.
To walk this wheel is to walk a path of balance and respect.
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