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Post by dancingwind on Nov 29, 2005 7:21:55 GMT
Native American wisdom about letting go of past
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
Chief Seattle
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Post by dancingwind on Nov 30, 2005 7:56:33 GMT
Native American wisdom about relationship to nature
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea? ...Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
Crouching Tiger
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 1, 2005 7:57:11 GMT
Native American wisdom about listening
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
Native American Proverb
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 2, 2005 11:38:59 GMT
Native American wisdom about the interconnectedness of all life
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 3, 2005 7:21:52 GMT
Native American Wisdom about crying
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Expression
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 4, 2005 9:13:32 GMT
Native American Wisdom about making life beautiful
"You... whose day this is, make it BEAUTIFUL. Get out your rainbow colors, that it may be beautiful."
Nekoosa Indian Poem
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 5, 2005 7:46:11 GMT
Prayer to the Voice in the Winds
O Great Spirit, whose Voice I hear in the Winds, Hear me -- for I am small and weak: I need Your Strength and Wisdom. I seek Strength, O Great One, not to be superior to my Brothers -- But to conquer my greatest enemy: Myself. I seek Wisdom: the Lessons You have hidden In every Leaf and Rock so that I may learn And carry these messages of Life and Hope to my People. May my hands respect the many beautiful things You have made; May my ears be sharp - to hear Your voice. May I always walk in Your beauty; And let my eyes behold the red and purple Sunset So that when Life fades with the setting Sun, My Spirit will come to You without shame.
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 5, 2005 7:57:50 GMT
Great and Eternal Mystery of Life, Creator of All Things, I give thanks for the beauty You put in every single one of Your creations.
I am grateful that You did not fail in making every stone, plant, creature, and human being a perfect and whole part of the Sacred Hoop.
I am grateful that You have allowed me to see the strength and beauty of All My Relations.
My humble request is that all of the Children of Earth will learn to see the same perfection in themselves.
May none of Your human children doubt or question Your wisdom, grace, and sense of wholeness in giving all of Creation a right to be living extensions of Your perfect love.
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 7, 2005 7:30:03 GMT
Native American Wisdom about knowing who you are
When you know who you are; when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will; no cold can touch your heart; no deluge can dampen your purpose. You know that you are alive.
Chief Seattle
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 8, 2005 12:36:19 GMT
Native American Wisdom about life
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot, Blackfoot Tribal Chief
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 9, 2005 8:11:14 GMT
Native American Wisdom about children
Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the Earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
Chief Seattle
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 13, 2005 10:10:58 GMT
Native American Wisdom about self pity
Sometimes I go about pitying myself And all the while I am being carried across the sky By beautiful clouds.
Ojibway Indian Poem
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 15, 2005 8:39:37 GMT
Native American Wisdom about seing the sacredness
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
Black Elk's Vision
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 16, 2005 4:46:17 GMT
Native American Wisdom about experiencing nature
The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, speaks to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.
Chief Dan George
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Post by dancingwind on Dec 24, 2005 9:56:11 GMT
Look to the North, the place of wisdom and breath. Look to the East, the place of freedom and growth. Look to the South, the place of warmth and joy. Look to the West, the place of darkness and rest. Look within, the place of depth and feeling. Look upward, the place of events unfolding. Look downward, the place of rootedness and peace. Look outward, the place of movement and all things. Look to Spiritworld, the place of teaching and patience. Look, within and around, our place is this ground of being. Let peace reign and love surround. May our hearts be united in oneness.
by Karren
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