Native American Wisdom

philosophical sayings Indian chiefs of the XIX century ...

not need a lot of words to tell the truth.

What is life?It is the light of a firefly in the night.It is the breath of a buffalo when winter comes.This shadow on the grass bed, and melting at sunset.

Love the earth.It is not you inherited your parents, she lent you at your children.

When the last tree is cut down, when the last river poisoned, when the last bird is caught, - only then will you realize that money can not be eaten.

In the first year of marriage, the couple looked at each other and thought, if they can be happy.If not - they said goodbye and looking for new spouses.If they were forced to live together in disagreement, we would be just as stupid as the white man.

You can not wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Great Spirit is imperfect.He has a bright side and the dark.Sometimes the dark side gives us more knowledge than light.

Look at me.I am poor and naked.But I'm the leader of his people.We do not need wealth.We just want to teach our children to be right.We want peace and love.

Even your silence may be part of the prayer.

White man is greedy.In his pocket he carries a canvas cloth, which vysmarkivaet his nose - as if afraid of what might blown out and miss out on something very valuable.

We are poor because we are honest.

knowledge hidden in every thing.Once peace was the library.

My son will never farming.Those who work on the ground, did not see dreams, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.

We do not want churches because they will teach us to argue about God.

When praying one day, and then sin six, the Great Spirit is angry, and the Evil Spirit laughs.

Why did you take the power that can not take the love?

old time was wonderful.Old men sat in the sun at the threshold of his house and played with the children as long as the sun, do not immerse them in slumber.Old men playing with their children every day.And at some point they just did not wake up.When

legend dies and disappears a dream in the world is greatness.

What is man without the beasts?If all the beasts are consumed, people would die from a great loneliness of spirit.Everything that happens to the beasts, happens to man.

One "take" better than two, "I give."

Do not walk behind me - I may not lead you.Do not walk ahead of me - perhaps I do not follow you.Go there, and we will be one.

truth - that's what people believe.

Even a small mouse has a right to rage.

I suffer when I think how much has been said good words and how many promises have been broken.In this world too much to say those who do not have the right to speak.

Let my enemy is strong and scary.If I requisitions it, I will not feel shame.

Anyone who tells stories, rules the world.

Strive for wisdom, not knowledge.Knowledge - is the past.Wisdom - is the future.

When you were born, you cried and the world laughed.Live so that by dying, you laughed, cried and the world.


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