A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.

The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed.

The story of the Two Wolves is a popular 21st-century legend of unknown origin, attributed to Native Americans, possibly Lenape or Cherokee.

I was thinking about this when I read an article about Self Reliance and realized how I’ve been following these steps without anyone ever teaching them to me. I thought that it could benefit the readers of my site. Hope you get something out of this.

Self Reliance

1. Assume Responsibility.
2. Be informed.
3. Know where you are going.
4. Make your own decisions.

Favorite quote by Ralph Waldo:

“Ne te quaesiveris extra.” (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

“Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”

“It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”