Topic: NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS SPIRITUALITY & HEALING | |
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"You want to know who's a real medicine man? He's the one who doesn't say 'I'm a medicine man.' He doesn't ask you to come to him. You've got to go and ask him. And you'll find he's always there among his own people."
---- Louis Farmer, ONONDAGA |
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Hold on to what is good,
Even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, Even if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, Even if it's a long way from here. Hold on to your life, Even if it's easier to let go. Hold on to my hand, Even if someday I'll be gone away from you. ---- Pueblo prayer |
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"In order for our children to survive in the world, they need a firm understanding and belief in the basic principles of sharing freedom and respect of individuality."
---- Haida Gwaii, Traditional Circle of Elders |
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"The teachings are for all, not just for Indians... The white people never wanted to learn before. They thought we were savages. Now they have a different understanding, and they do want to learn. We are all children of God. The tradition is open to anyone who wants to learn."
---- Don Jose Matusuwa, HUICHOL |
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"Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and what cannot be prevented should not be grieved for..."
---- Big Elk, OMAHA Chief |
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"Many religions have been brought to this land. And the way my religion is, they teach me, and they taught me, and told me to respect all religions. And I still do that."
---- Horace Axtell, NEZ PERCE |
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"Those who live for one another learn that love is the bond of perfect unity."
---- Fools Crow, LAKOTA |
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"Nature is the storehouse of potential life of future generations and is sacred."
---- Audrey Shenandoah, ONONDAGA |
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"It's not the package and the wrapping which counts.., but what is inside, underneath the clothes and the skin."
---- Lame Deer, LAKOTA |
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"Parents have to demonstrate the value of trust, respect, and honor."
---- Haida Gwaii, Traditional Circle of Elders |
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"If you have one hundred people who live together, and if each one cares for the rest, there is One Mind."
---- Shining Arrows, CROW |
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"We don't have to say or think what we don't wish to. We have a choice in those things, and we have to realize that and practice using that choice."
---- Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE |
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".....because if you believe in something, and believe in it long enough, it will come into being."
---- Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE |
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"Always remember that the Great Mystery is good; evil can come only from ourselves!"
---- Grandmother of Charles Eastman. SANTEE SIOUX |
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".....because if you believe in something, and believe in it long enough, it will come into being." ---- Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE I absolutely believe this! Namaste' jagbird |
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".....because if you believe in something, and believe in it long enough, it will come into being." ---- Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE I absolutely believe this! Namaste' jagbird Chi Miigwetch, Storm.. |
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"When we're through with this earth and all these problems, we don't have to come back. But as long as we're here we have a job to do and a purpose to fulfill, and that means dealing with the circumstances around us."
---- Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE |
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"Our circle is timeless, flowing, it is a new life emerging from death-life winning out over death."
---- Lame Deer, LAKOTA |
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"The hearts of little children are pure, and therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."
---- Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa) OGLALA LAKOTA |
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"Once you make a friend, a friend never leaves you, even to death. So a friend is really hard to find."
---- Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA |
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