Eddie Benton-Banai

Native American Ojibway Educator, Midewiwin Priest, Poet

Autonomy / Control
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
in Steve Wall & Harvey Arden, Wisdomkeepers , 1990

Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004