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``WORDS OF WISDOM``
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The following words are not of my writings,
but are `Sayings of Wisdom`
to help you cope with `Your Great Loss`
with the confusion and unrest,
stirring within your soul:
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The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests,
plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that
fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings.
He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as
the buffalo belonged....
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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense
and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and
principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a
guide to mundane relations.
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You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is
because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries
to be round..... 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 nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back
again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood,
and so it is in everything where power moves.
-`*Black Elk (Oglala) 1863-1950`*-
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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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From Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all power. It is from Wakan-Tanka that
the holy man has wisdom and the power to heal and make holy charms. Man knows that
all healing plants are given by Wakan-Tanka, therefore they are holy. So too is
the buffalo holy, because it is the gift of Wakan-Tanka.
-*`Flat-Iron (Maza Blaska) Oglala Sioux Chief`*
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In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals,
for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain
animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beast, and that from them,
and from the stars and the sun and moon should man learn.. all things tell of Tirawa.
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All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil.
With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly....
We have the right hand that strikes and makes for evil, and we have the left hand
full of kindness, near the heart. One foot may lead us to an evil way, the other
foot may lead us to a good. So are all things two, all two.
-`*Eagle Chief (Letakos-Lesa) Pawnee`*-
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.....`Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission`.....
.....`This is the Indian theory of existence`.....
-`*author unknown`*
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