Native American Spiritual Quotes by Tecumseh, Chief Seattle, Black Elk, Luther Standing Bear, Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull and many others.
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
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.
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
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.
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists – as it surely will. Then act with courage.
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.
