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"Love your life, perfect your
life,
Beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long,
and its purpose in the service of your people."
~
Chief Tecumseh
"So live your life that
the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their
religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect
yours."
~ Tecumseh
"Do not kill or injure
your neighbor, for it is not him that you injure, you injure
yourself.
But do good to him, therefore add to his days of happiness as you add to
your own.
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not him that you wrong, you
wrong yourself.
But love him, for Moneto loves him also as he loves you."
~ Golden
Rule of the Shawnee
"Peace comes within the
souls of men,
when they realize their oneness with the Universe,
when they realize it is really everywhere...
it is within each one of us."
~
Black Elk, Lakota Medicine Man
"I
cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.
There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God."
~
Geronimo
"O
Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds,
I come to you as one of your many children.
I need your strength and your wisdom.
Make me strong not to be superior to my brother,
but to be able to fight my greatest enemy: Myself"
~ Chief Dan George
"The
Great Spirit ... put in your heart certain wishes and plans;
in my heart, he put other different desires....
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit."
~ Chief Sitting Bull
"A very great vision is needed,
and the man who has it must follow it...
as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky."
~ Chief
Crazy Horse
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
"Beauty is before me,
And beauty is behind me.
Above and below me hovers the beautiful.
I am surrounded by it.
I am immersed in it.
In my youth I am aware of it,
And in old age I shall walk quietly
The beautiful trail."
~ Navajo Prayer
Words
of Wisdom from Chief Tecumseh
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