A ll dreams spin out from the same web. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Hopi share
T here is no death, only a change of worlds. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Duwamish share
W e will be known forever by the tracks we leave. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Dakota share
Y ou already possess everything necessary to become great. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Crow share
M an's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Crow share
O ur first teacher is our own heart. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Cheyenne share
W hen you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, he world cries and you rejoice. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Cherokee share
W hat is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset… Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Blackfoot share
W hen we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Arapaho share
B efore eating, always take time to thank the food. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Arapaho share
T ake only what you need and leave the land as you found it. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Arapaho share
A ll plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Arapaho share
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Sioux share
E very animal knows more than you do. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Nez Perce share
I f you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Minquass share
M an has responsibility, not power. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Tuscarora share
D o unto others as you would they should do unto you. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Pima share
Y ou can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Navajo share
L ife is not separate from death. It only looks that way. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American Blackfoot share
T ell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. Native Americans Proverb quote, Tradition / Native American share
A ccording to the Shawnee, 'a soul goes to earth and jumps through the mother's vagina and into the body of the child through the fontanelle just before birth.' Native American Culture quote, Tradition / Native American Ake Hultkrantz, Conceptions of the Soul among North American Indians (Stockbolm, 1954), PP. 412-26 share
T he Ingalik believe that 'there is a place filled with the spirits of little children, all impatient to be "called," i.e., born into this life. Native American Culture quote, Tradition / Native American Ake Hultkrantz, Conceptions of the Soul among North American Indians (Stockbolm, 1954), PP. 412-26 share
A mong the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest the realm of the dead in the underworld is the place where the unborn dwell. One may naturally suspect that the new-born are consequently reincarnated deceased persons. But this is not always the case, for according to the agrarian Pueblo ideology the underworld is also the place for the renewal of life and is the original home of humanity. Native American Culture quote, Tradition / Native American Ake Hultkrantz, Conceptions of the Soul among North American Indians (Stockbolm, 1954), PP. 412-26 share
T he supernatural origin of the human soul finds particularly clear expression in the idea of pre-existence. Here we are not referring to the pre-existence that a reincarnated individual has had in a previous earthly life as man or animal: we are referring to the pre-incarnative existence, man's life before he is incarnated on earth. 'Man' stands here for the individual reality, which from the psychological viewpoint is the extra-physical soul, the free-soul, and which consequently represents man's ego in the pre-incarnative state. . . . Native American Culture quote, Tradition / Native American Ake Hultkrantz, Conceptions of the Soul among North American Indians (Stockbolm, 1954), PP. 412-26 share