Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other,
thus should we do, for this was the wish of the
Grandfathers of the World.
~Black Elk

There need be no trouble.  Treat all men alike.  Give them all the same law.
Give tham all an even chance to live and grow.  All men were made by the
same Great Spirit Chief.  They are all Brothers.  The Earth is the Mother
of all People and all People should have equal rights upon it.
~Chief Joseph

A man can live out his entire life without ever finding more than what
was already within him as his Beginning Gift, but if he wishes to Grow
he must become a Seeker and Seek for himself the other Ways.
~Hyemeyohsts Storm

Everything that gives birth is Female.  When Men begin to
understand the relationships of the Universe that Women
have always known, the World will begin to change
for the better.
~Lorraine Canoe

Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds.
~Albert Einstein

The Great Spirit, in placing human beings on the Earth,
desired them to take good care of the ground and to do
each other no harm.
~Young Chief

We Humans must come again to a moral comprehension of the Earth and Air.
We must live according to the principle of a Land Ethic.  The alternative
is that we shall not live at all.
~N. Scott Momaday

The air, blowing everywhere, serves all Creatures.
~Hildegarde of Bingen

Know that, by nature, every creature seeks to become like God...
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not,
secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the
track on which God may be found.
~Meister Johannes Eckhart

I was seeing in a Sacred Manner the shapes of all things in the Spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like One Being.
And I saw that the Sacred Hoop of my People was one of many Hoops
that made one Circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center
grew one mighty Flowering Tree to shelter all the Children of one
Mother and one Father.  And I saw that it was Holy.
~Black Elk

The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
~Albert Einstein

Good judgment comes from experience... experience comes from poor judgment.
~Unknown

Hope has two beautiful daughters, their names are anger and courage.
Anger that things are the way they are.
Courage to make them the way they ought to be.
~St. Augustine

Our determining Spirit can be made whole only through
the learning of our harmony with all our Brothers and Sisters,
and with all the other Spirits of the Universe.
~Hyemeyohsts Storm

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
~Joseph Chilton Pearce

When we walk to the end of all the light we have, and take a step
into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things
will happen: that we will land on something solid, or we will learn to fly.
~Unknown

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know,
it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of Spirit,
and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
~Black Elk

Just because a great many people believe in something is no
guarantee of its truth.
~Gandhi

What we do anywhere matters... It matters very much.
Mesas and Mountains, Rivers and Trees, Winds and Rains are as
sensitive to the actions and thoughts of Humans as we are to their forces.
They take into themselves what we give off and give it out again.
~Edith Warner

Sometimes it's better to treat the wound than beat the dog that bit you.
~James W. Larsen

Everything is laid out for you.  Your Path is straight ahead of you.
Sometimes it's invisible but it's there.  You may not know where
it's going, but you have to follow the Path.  It's the Path to the Creator.
It's the only Path there is.
~Chief Leon Shenandoah

An eye for an eye, makes the world go blind.
~Gandhi

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.
Pass all the pebbles in your Path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
~Unknown

One of our old, old Holy Men said,"Every step you take on Earth
should be a Prayer.  The power of a pure and good Soul is in
every person's Heart and will grow as a seed as you walk in
a Sacred manner.  And if every step you take is a Prayer, then
you will always be walking in a Sacred Manner."
~Charmaine White Face

Some decades ago I attended a burial in a Christian cemetery at Mission,
South Dakota.  After the body was in the grave and the several mourners
were standing at the grave, an old woman stepped forward and put an
orange on the grave.  The Episcopal priest who had conducted the service
rushed over and took the orange away, saying "When do you think the departed
will come and eat this orange?"  One of the Sioux men standing there said
"When the Soul comes to smell the flowers."  No one said anything after that!
~Vine Deloria, Jr.

My imagination is the limit, My heart is the source.
~James Whitesun

The smarter a man is, the more he needs God to protect him from
thinking he knows everything.
~George Webb

It has become inherently obvious that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
~Albert Einstein

Guard your tongue in youth, and in age you may mature a thought
that will be of service to your People.
~Chief Wabashaw

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and
when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters.
~Kahlil Gibran

A noble Soul has reverence for itself.
~Unknown

I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things
I would like to see happen, because no man can claim to know what
is best for mankind.  Wakan Tanka and Grandfather alone know
what is best, and this is why, even though I am worried, my attitude is
not overcome with fear of the future.  I submit always to Wakan Tanka's
will.  This is not easy, and most people find it impossible, but I have seen the
power of Prayer and I have seen God's desires fulfilled.  So I pray
always that God will give me wisdom to accept his way of doing things.
~Frank Fools Crow

Just when you get to thinkin' you're pretty important,
try bossing somebody else's dog around.
~Unknown

A man who stands for nothing, will fall for anything!
~Malcolm X

You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because
the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round...
The Sky is round, and I have heard that the Earth is round like a ball, and so are
all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in
circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours...

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again
to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so
it is in everything where power moves.
~Black Elk

...everything on the Earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and
every person a Mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
~Mourning Dove

If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced
with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the
present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet
in the Path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!
~Tom Brown, Jr.

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be
born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as
the birds, animals, fish and trees.
~Qwatsinas

Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows.
~Sitting Bull

The First Peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the Souls
of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the Universe
and all its Powers, and when they realize that at the center of the
Universe dwells Wakan Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us.  This is the real Peace, and the others are
but reflections of this.  The Second Peace is that which is between
two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations.
 But above all you should understand that there can never be Peace
between nations until there is first known that True Peace which,
as I have often said, is within the Souls of men.
~Black Elk

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills,
and winding streams with tangled growth as wild.
Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings
of the Great Mystery.
~Luther Standing Bear

When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money......
~Cree Prophecy

You won't discover the limits of the Soul, however far you go.
~Heraclitus

The great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man.
~H. Brown

Miracles are not contrary to Nature,
only to what we know of Nature.
~St. Augustine

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