The Vision Quest

Mother and one with The Great Spirit."
“Moreover,” he added, “You will not partake in any
food or water for the first seven days and nights.”
An incredulous Running Deer enquired, “Is this what
you did father?”
“Yes my son,” he replied, “It is necessary, as you will
discover when you go through this experience.”
Running Deer was noticeably shaken by his father’s
words, his lips quivering and mind racing, conjuring up
all sorts of horrible events and the possibility of dying
alone in the woods, for what? Fear coursed through
his veins, every imaginable fear, fear of the wild, fear
of hungry animals, fear of being alone, but mostly fear
of dying, never to see his family again.
“Fear can stop you in your tracks or catapult you to
a powerful place my son,” the Chief expounded
intuitively, “Which will you choose?”
Immediately Running Deer recalled the story of the
two wolves that live within us all, told around the
campfire, one starry night by his grandfather. The
punch line about the one that survives between the
angry black wolf and the loving white wolf, being -
“The one you feed!”
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