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Lightnings. Navaho Prayer. "Walking in Beauty" from the Navajo Way Blessing Ceremony

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 This poem is part of the Navaho Blessing ceremony. It perfectly expresses the psychological spontaneity of the people who live in the Anima Mundi.
In these verses I see the fitra that the Sufis speak of, the Original Nature of the Human Soul, seductive, powerful and delicate, like the Presence of newborns.

 

In beauty I walk
 With beauty before me I walk
 With beauty behind me I walk
 With beauty above me I walk
 With beauty around me I walk
 It has become beauty again

Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me
 I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.
 I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me.
 I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me.
 I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me.
 I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.
 In beauty all day long may I walk.
 Through the returning seasons, may I walk.
 On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
 With dew about my feet, may I walk.
 With beauty before me may I walk.
 With beauty behind me may I walk.
 With beauty below me may I walk.
 With beauty above me may I walk.
 With beauty all around me may I walk.
 In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
 In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
 My words will be beautiful...

 

"Walking in Beauty" from the Navajo Way Blessing Ceremony


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