Lakota Prayer

“Wakan Tanka teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit.* Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my sacred space and love beyond my fear, and thus walk in beauty with the passing of each glorious sun.”

According to the people of the First Nations, the Sacred Space is the space between exhalation and inhalation. To ‘walk in beauty’ is to have heaven (spirituality) and earth (physicality) in harmony.

*Wakan Tanka (Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka) is the term for "the sacred" or "the divine". This is usually translated as "The Great Spirit" or the "Great Mystery". It is typically understood as the power or the sacredness which resides in everything that exists.