Native American Quotes
The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward—toward my people—instead of backward, away from them.
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.
Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
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.
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.
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
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'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.
There is a falling from the skyThe sacred hoop is brokenBut different hands with different voiceHear the ancient songsAnd soonAll men will seeThat truth and justiceMustPrevail.
No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always come back to my thoughts When you hear me singing I am really crying for you.
We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.
He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts