Quotes About Native American Wisdom

#1. As great as is the light above us, greater by far is the light within.

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#2. I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Chief Joseph

#3. Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.

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#4. There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

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#5. There is a falling from the sky
The sacred hoop is broken
But different hands with different voice
Hear the ancient songs
And soon
All men will see
That truth and justice
Must
Prevail.

Laurence Overmire

#6. Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

Geronimo

#7. The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them.

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#8. 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.

Linda Hogan

#9. Darkness within clouds the world without.

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#10. There is much to be learned from the world around us - far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well - most particularly the wise teachers among them - those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called "Anasazi.

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#11. We travel only as far and as high as our hearts will take us.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#14. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)

KoKo Nervelli

#15. As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#16. We who lose our footing have lost our way.

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#17. Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#18. Nature is not dumb. Humanity is dumb when we can't hear or when we forget how to communicate with nature. Nature is very much alive. Intelligent living beings and vibrant energies are all over the planet.

Sun Bear

#19. 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.

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#20. If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.

Chief Dan George

#21. You will go. And you will live a good life with my people. But bad things will happen. They always do. And when they do, you must not blame yourself. You must enjoy life in spite of bad things.

K.B. Laugheed

#22. Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?

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#23. I am surprised you didn't whack your head on an overhanging branch back there. I have never seen anyone leap straight up off the ground the way you did when you saw that snake! It would make a good move for our next dance. Do you think you could teach the others? The snake jump?

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#24. 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

Lucy H. Pearce

#25. His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Patricia Briggs

#26. Light chases away darkness.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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#29. Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.

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#30. Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.

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#31. Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has on his nose.

Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

#32. Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.

Dee Brown

#33. 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.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#34. As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.

Linda Hogan

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#36. The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.

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#37. 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

Glenn Aparicio Parry

#38. 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.

G.G. Collins

#39. Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

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#40. That's it, Skyco. That is the way to be a hunter. Never be in a hurry, never rush things. Wait until the prey is within your grasp, then strike swiftly and strike hard. Don't miss or it may be a long time before another opportunity appears.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#41. 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.

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#42. So much for land ownership, Henry thinks; it's a modern myth. You can buy and sell rights to use the land; you can't actually own it. He tries to remember who said, the land doesn't belong to you, you belong to the land; the author was certainly Native American, but he can't pin down the source.

J.J. Brown

#43. 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.

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#44. What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.

Linda Hogan

#45. We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.

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#46. 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.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert