Native American Wisdom Quotes
Native American Wisdom Quote of the day
We who lose our footing have lost our way.
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.
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.
I wish I had been more interested or learned sooner, but I didn’t, and now I must face the consequences.
Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.
We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.
The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.
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
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
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.
I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.
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.
Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.
Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?
Darkness within clouds the world without.
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.
Would it surprise you to hear that man's unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness?
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.
Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.
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.
The most beautiful thing in the world is a heart that is changing.
The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward—toward my people—instead of backward, away from them.
We travel only as far and as high as our hearts will take us.
Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.
There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.