Favorite Quotes

"Creator gave you two ears....

And one mouth....

So you can listen

Twice as much

As you speak.

Two Hawks' Grandfather

Lakota

"One cannot sell the earth

Upon which the people walk."

Tacunka Witco (Crazy Horse)

Oglala Lakota

Oh Great Spirit, who made all races

Look kindly upon the whole human

Family and take away the arrogance

And hatred which separates us

From our brothers....

Cherokee Prayer

"When you arise in the morning, give thanks

For the morning light, for your life and strength.

Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault

Lies with yourself...."

"Life....

It is the flash of a firefly in the night,

The breath of a buffalo in the winter.

It is the little shadow, which runs across

The grass, and loses itself in the sunset...."

The growing and dying of the moon reminds us

of our ignorance which comes and goes-

but when the moon is full it is as if the

Great Spirit were upon the whole world.

-Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

"May you always walk in Beauty."

The Great Spirit is in all things, he is in the air we breathe.

The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother.

She nourishes us that which we put into the ground she returns to us...

O' GREAT SPIRIT

Help me always

to speak the truth quietly,

to listen with an open mind

when others speak,

and to remember the peace

that may be found in silence.

Cherokee Prayer