365 / Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life :

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November 21
We bury them from sight forever and plant again the tree.
Dekanawidiah
Iroquois c. 1300

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November 22
If the Indian an loves, he speaks the truth ; but if he does not, he
is silent.
Tecumseh
Shawnee 1808

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November 23
The whole world belongs to Asga Ya Galun Lati, the Great Spirit.
Cherokee adage

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November 24
Let me do the right things for my people. Not for the sake of merit,
but because of the sacrifice of my people in this land which belongs
to them.
Teton Sioux Vision Quest Prayer

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November 25
You said you would enlarge the fire...add more fuel to make it
brighter.
Canassatego
Onondaga 1742

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November 26
While feeling compassion for you in the sweetness of our response,
we wonder at the anxieties and cares which you give yourself...
Gadpesian Chief

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November 27
The Great Spirit knows they I have spoken the truth.
Struck By The Ree
Yankton Sioux 1865

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November 28
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Navajo proverb

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The two wolves
"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one." The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?" The grandfather answered: "The one I feed."

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“Elder's Meditation of the Day "And there are Four Corners of the Earth that we talk about, the Four Colors of people, and the Four Winds. You see the winds - they are spirits. The Elders teach us about the four directions. If we learn about direction, we also learn about attention, about focus, and about power.

Each direction has spiritual power. In the morning, go outside, face the east and get still; then, listen to your thoughts. After you have done this for a while, turn and face the west. Get quiet once again and listen to your thoughts. Did your thinking change when you changed direction? Great Spirit, teach me the power of the four directions.”

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“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.”
- Big Thunder (Bedagi) Wabanaki Algonquin

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"We have men among us, like the whites, who pretend to know the right path...I have no faith in their paths, but believe that every man must make his own path!" Black Hawk-Saux

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“How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right."
Black Hawk -Saux

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Wakan Tankan Nici Un (May the Great Spirit walk with you)

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Tecumseh, the great chief of the Shawnee Nation:

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the 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 the hero going home.

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who would ask where the hero came from?
glad i got a chance to.




in the global context of today, there's always a sequel to read with a mind well-kept in ancestral purity:
http://books.google.de/books?id=KxiKPeQyiakC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=condemned+food+counter&source=bl&ots=9b1YB8MlIZ&sig=6vkbKngN4vhxIIVfS_qRKpx-M_c&hl=de&ei=pJ7kTpD3G9SYsAa30826CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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above all, such a one knows that it is good.

\!! i treasure the blessings.
i thought i could handle distances much better.