Native Quotes
The most beautiful thing in the world is a heart that is changing.
Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.
Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.
Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.
Would it surprise you to hear that man's unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness?
At the end of our lives, when our bodies are about to be laid in Mother Earth, we will know for ourselves whether we are a Two-Legged being full of light or a Two-Legged being full of darkness.
Darkness within clouds the world without.
Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.
I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to walk with Him that I have learned to walk forward.
As great as is the light above us, greater by far is the light within.
Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?
Light chases away darkness.
Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.
Hiking is like life...You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or fall.And then you miss all this.
I wish I had been more interested or learned sooner, but I didn’t, and now I must face the consequences.
I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land.
Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.
There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.
What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.
The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.
At her first bleeding a woman meets her power. During her bleeding years she practices it. At menopause she becomes it. Traditional Native American saying
Where the mountain crosses.On top of the mountain, I do not myself know where.I wandered where my mind and my heart seemed to be lost.I wandered away.
Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.
What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.
It's not about Indians, it's about people... the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. - Larry Stillday
Who can declare that money is not a power which rulers of the world cannot withstand?
For being so straight and sure, God’s path held quite the assortment of twists.
If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society.
When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.
Stallions, " Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA
The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry
Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
In Indian Country, ” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will.
Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.
I want them to see the magic of how everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky.
We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors.
We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.
No, not my spirit, just my ego, and my arms, and my chest, and my back, but luckily they are just bruised.” Squanto responded, “I fear you may not be so lucky.
Allow the power to flow through you. Don’t try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.