Don’t believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.

Would it surprise you to hear that man’s unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness? You know this already from your own life. For when you have been unhappy, you have been unhappy with others – with your father or mother, your sister or brother, your spouse, your son, your daughter. If unhappiness is with others, wouldn’t it stand to reason that happiness must be with others as well?

There is much to be learned from the world around us – far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well – most particularly the wise teachers among them – those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called “Anasazi.

Man’s obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.

Would it surprise you to hear that man’s unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness?

We have found that no modern prescriptions heal the human heart so fully or so well as the prescription of the Ancient Ones. “To the hills,” they would say. To which we would add, “To the trees, the valleys, and the streams, as well.” For there is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward – toward my people – instead of backward, away from them.

Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature’s resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.

Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life’s walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.

I have learned that the point of life’s walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.