December 28th, 2025
“The secret to living well and longer is to eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.”
Tibetan Proverb
Chapter 8: Living Sacredness As A Daily Practice
In Tloque Nahuaque: Sacred Connectedness
“This first sacred practice of sacred connection is taking time to honor the Creator, praying/meditating and connecting to your sacredness every day. …Do so in quiet, listening and paying attention to your inner voice. …In connecting with the Creator/God/Spirit, you are really honoring yourself, reconnecting, and plugging yourself in.”
“To strengthen your daily practice, it’s good to have a sacred space (alter) in your house or wherever you spend this sacred time. Have a sacred space that you use regularly, so that it collects this energy.”
Flor Y Canto: Living Your Life To Flower And Sing In Gratitude
“Give thanks and have gratitude for what you have, not what you don’t, for where you are and not where you want to be, or where you have been. Being grateful is a sacred energetic act. This practice is about watering what you want to grow. …But if you take a moment every day to be thankful, and express gratitude for what you have, who you are, and for those around you, then joy will surround you.”
Todo Se Paga: Be Of Service And Advocate For The Needs Of Others
“Serving others is a powerful way to grow, learn and heal. There is sacred medicine in service to others. After you take care of your own basic needs, do for others. …You will be surprised that in serving others, there is joy and healing that will be manifested.”
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Galatians 6:9
Ollin: Blessings And Abundance
” The Creator send us blessings in abundance, and people to help us every day. …Take off the limits, and recognize that there’s nothing wrong with being blessed with goodness of health, positive emotions, and comfort. …What I have found is that the more that you share, the more you receive. It’s the interconnected circle of giving and receiving, Ollin.
In Lak’ech – Tu’ Eres Mi Otro Yo – You Are My Other Me
“In essence, the concept speaks to our fundamental interconnectedness. When you hurt, we all hurt. When you heal, we all heal. When you grow, we all grow. And when you get closer to your sacredness, we all get closer to universal sacredness. Peace in the world starts one piece (peace) at a time, and each of us has a part to fulfill.”
Living Your Sacred Circle
“Intuition is a sacred gift you were born with, innate in every cell of your being. Follow it and allow your soul to carry out your highest expression of life.”
Melinda Rodriguez
“We all are born with a deep spiritual voice – that grandmother/grandfather spirit that give us signals when things are right or not. Blessings are a part of life that we deserve. If we can heal and move forward with a sense of face and heart in balance, then we can find peace in ourselves. When we arrive, there is a sense of face that looks backward but doesn’t live backwards, a sense of face that looks forward after having shed the need to know ‘why.’ releasing anger, resentment, and shame, and seeing fear as a teacher and not a bully in our lives. We must shed the anger and resentment, transforming the shame and fear so that we can once again live in happiness and harmony.”
“And finally, forgiving ourselves and others. The internalized sacred teachings also give us a heart that doesn’t lead by fear, but is guided by faith. It is a heart that allows us to pay attention to our intuition and the spiritual, ancestral-voice deep inside us. This allows us to continue along a path of integrity, hope, vision and the true fulfillment of our sacredness, allowing us to recover our sacred purpose.”
“The Creator and life’s teachers give us opportunities and the medicine to release those burdens and open a path for us to step into a new day. Grandfather sun has shined its light on you this new day to water today’s light in you. And I remind you that: today, right now, with all your dark and light, the light lessons that you carry and the shadow lessons that challenge you, you are sacred, you are a blessing, just the way you are.”
“The greatest wisdom is simplicity. Love, respect. tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It is not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It’s encoded in our DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart and you will find your way.”
Carlos Barrios (Mayan Elder)
–Trello, Jerry. “Recovering Your Sacredness: Ancestral Teachings For Today’s Living”. Sueños Publications, L.L.C.. (2018). Pages 145-151.
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