Long ago, our Elders watched the Eagle, , and understood why it is sacred. One of many sacred teachings of the Eagle is the power of ascendency rather than wasting energy
The crow is bold, the only bird that dares to ride on the Eagle’s back, pecking and crying out, trying to pull it down. Many would expect the Eagle to fight—but that is not the way of the Eagle.
The Eagle wastes no strength in quarrels. It does not look backward or downward. Instead, it opens its wings and rises. Higher, and higher still, until the air is thin and pure. At those heights, the crow cannot breathe, cannot endure. It falls away, defeated not by force, but by the Eagle’s power to ascend.
This is the lesson for us as human beings. There will always be those who peck at us with jealousy, anger, or doubt. If we fight them, we lower ourselves. But if we rise—through prayer, through vision, through walking the straight path—we leave behind what cannot survive in the higher air of truth and compassion.
The Eagle teaches us that our spirit was made to soar. To rise above noise. To see with clear eyes from the heights where Wakan Tanka, the Great Mystery, whispers guidance. Let us
remember: we do not overcome by fighting, We overcome by rising.
