Saturday, August 1, 2009

Two Wolves

An elder Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me.. it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity,humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith." "This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too", he added. The Grandchildren thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"The old Cherokee simply replied... "The one you feed."

5 comments:

peggysue said...

Very clever and so true. We are all guilty of feeding the wrong wolf sometimes, aren't we? Sometimes more than once a day. Great little story.

Life's Mom said...

That is good - what a great visual picture. "Life" and I may do an art project together with this picture.

Mom 4 Kids said...

I really like this. Thanks for sharing it.

BeckyJoie said...

I've heard this as well. Great correlation to RAD.

~Dinah said...

thanks!