Udaar charitanaam vasudev kutumbakam ~ To the large-hearted, the whole world is kin

"When the wind calls,
 You know,
 That somewhere in the mountains,
 It has found the answers that you were looking for.
 The pull of the horizon overcomes the inertia of reason...
 And you just have to go".
-Vikram Oberoi, on a motorcycle trek to Ladakh

It seemed to me then, as it does now, that the basis of Indian time is ceremonial, while the basis of time in the industrialized west is mechanical. I also implied that motion that is in balance is integrating and empowering, while the other kind is fragmenting and disempowering...........
..."Hoop Dancer" is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.
-Paula Gunn Allen

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.

--Paula Gunn Allen

"So until people learn that the religions of today each have something to teach about the journey to God, they will be like the people living at the base of the mountain!" Chester beamed.
The master stodd up and said, "Exactly."

"Many teachers will tell you to believe; then they put out your eyes of
reason and instruct you to follow only their logic. But I want you
to keep your eyes of reason open; in addition, I will open in you
another eye, the eye of wisdom."
~Paramahansa Yogananda, `Man's Eternal Quest', quoting his guru's words to him