Under The Quandong Tree

For example, if we accept that anger is part of who we are, when we recognise we are angry we have a chance to construct, dig, build, and carry heavy burdens with the strength that anger builds within us. Likewise too much compassion, and we drown in it. To have compassion is to give, tend and nurture, but in our perfectly imperfect state, this can

If we don’t live the journey, that we have been born to live, then we become spiritually lost. So we choose our lives and we choose our teachings. It’s important that we know and keep the women’s sacred teachings. That’s who we are — we’re women, and who better to understand and nurture women than ourselves? And the greatest woman of all, the most

Women’s business has to do with a way of life that keeps families and communities together supporting each other. It’s walking every day and living every day a spirituality of helping each other and especially caring for the Earth, our mother, Nungeena-tya, who is dying around us.

My wish is that every single child that starts school in this country, by the time they finish kindergarten, would be able to do their own Dreaming story, according to tradition.

What’s really important for all Australians to know is that, believe it or not, if you are born of this land, you are of this land, you have a responsibility to this land and you have a right to know;

It’s all about knowing where you belong. It’s OK to be, say, an Anglican Christian child being reared in Australia and getting the Anglican teachings but still learning how to do your own Dreaming story in school. And it’s all right for a child to be brought up in Australia in the Muslim faith and learn to do this in school. It’s about our country

As you know, when a baby is born the placenta is still attached to the child but it still carries the Miwi print of that life’s journey. The moment that baby sucks its first breath of air, a switch is flicked, signalling to the map-carrying placenta, that it and the baby are about to be separated. The placenta then ejects its seeds of instruction —

What do I mean by Oneness? Imagine I have a large rock in my hand; see this as the Oneness of Creation, a big solid mountain that we are all part of. This gives us strength as well as protection, binding us together. Boss of self is part of understanding Oneness, part of the Dreaming. It is following your Miwi, your spirit path, and knowing your sp

Because children can let their essence take control, it is important for you to help them to continually learn to be in control. You tell them, say, about the bandicoot essence that they have. It starts from this age and you tell the stories over and over and over. So then your children know themselves so well they are on their way to becoming inti