Earth, Teach Me

"Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light.
Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility ~ as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring ~ as mothers nurture their young.
Earth teach me courage ~ as the tree that stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation ~ as the ant that crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom ~ as the eagle that soars in the sky.
Earth teach me acceptance ~ as the leaves that die each fall.
Earth teach me renewal ~ as the seed that rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself ~ as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness ~ as dry fields weep with rain."

---- Ute Prayer

"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."

---- Chief Seattle, 1854

"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace...
Treat all men alike.
Give them all the same law.
Give them all an even chance to live and grow.All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief.
They are all brothers.
The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it....
Let me be a free man,free to travel, free to stop,free to work,free to trade where I choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers,free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."

---- Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader

"All the stones that are around here, each one has a language of its own.
Even the earth has a song."

---- Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA

"Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong."

---- Thomas Yellowtail, CROW

The True Peace

"The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness, with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center
of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit),
and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.
The second peace is that which is made between two individuals,
and the third is that which is made between two nations.
But above all you should understand that there can never
be peace between nations until there is known that true peace,
which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men."

---- Black Elk, Oglala Sioux & Spiritual Leader (1863 - 1950)

"To believe that every tree, plant, and insect can talk takes an open mind. Go by yourself into nature and sit quietly. Then pick up a rock and listen to your thoughts. After a while, put that rock down and pick up another rock. Your thoughts will change. These are the voices and wisdom of the Stone People. Each one has different wisdom and they are willing to share their wisdom with you. Many of the Stone People are very old and very wise."

--- Elly Blue Ridge

"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."

---- Chief Seattle, 1854

"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 things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must
live together like one being."

---- Black Elk

Lakota Prayer

"Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery,
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun."

*According to the Native Pathway, the Sacred Space
is the space between exhalation and inhalation.
To Walk in Balance is to have Heaven (spirituality)
and Earth (physicality) in Harmony.

"We must have respect and understanding for women and all female life on this Earth which bears the sacred gift of life."

---- Traditional Circle of Elders. ONONDAGA

"But the great spirit has provided you and me with an opportunity for study in nature's university, the forests, the rivers, the mountains, and the animals which include us."

---- Walking Buffalo, STONEY

"What we really need to learn is how to live life. Nature is the greatest university when we want to learn about balance, harmony, the Natural Laws and how to live life. But we will never learn unless we spend time in the "living university." Nature is full of examples, lessons, and exercises about life. Nature will help humans learn. Nature will help humans heal. Nature will help with Medicine, knowledge, and healing. The reason our Elders are so wise is because they have attended the right educational system - nature's university."

--- Elly Blue Ridge

"Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other,
this should we do,
for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World."

---- Black Elk

Yes, I have friends who need healing --- Washington Redskins

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I wish you well.., coyote..

"Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong."

---- Thomas Yellowtail, CROW

"The Elders tell us change occurs in two directions. They say, "That which is built is constantly being destroyed; that which is loose is being used to build the new." In other words, change is constantly going on.

Many times we hear people say, "I hate change." Does it make sense that the Great Spirit would design people to hate it? The Great Spirit designed people with change abilities such as visioning, imagery and imagination. Maybe we need to learn to use these tools and then we'll look forward to change."

---- Elly Blue Ridge

"If the Great Spirit wanted men to stay in one place He would make the world stand still; but He made it to always change..."

---- Chief Flying Hawk, OGLALA SIOUX

"To be able to greet the sun with the sounds from all of Nature is a great blessing.... and it helps us to remember Who is the real provider of all of our benefits."

---- Thomas Yellowtail, CROW