Y ou already possess everything necessary to become great. quote 4474 | Native Americans Proverb Crow
M an's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same. quote 4473 | Native Americans Proverb Crow
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. quote 4471 | Native Americans Proverb Cherokee
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… quote 4470 | Native Americans Proverb Blackfoot
W hen we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. quote 4469 | Native Americans Proverb Arapaho
T ake only what you need and leave the land as you found it. quote 4467 | Native Americans Proverb Arapaho
A ll plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them. quote 4466 | Native Americans Proverb Arapaho
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. quote 4465 | Native Americans Proverb Sioux
I f you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. quote 4463 | Native Americans Proverb Minquass
Y ou can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. quote 4459 | Native Americans Proverb Navajo
L ife is not separate from death. It only looks that way. quote 4458 | Native Americans Proverb Blackfoot
T ell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. quote 4457 | Native Americans Proverb
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.' quote 3949 | Native American Culture Ake Hultkrantz, Conceptions of the Soul among North American Indians (Stockbolm, 1954), PP. 412-26
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. quote 3948 | Native American Culture Ake Hultkrantz, Conceptions of the Soul among North American Indians (Stockbolm, 1954), PP. 412-26
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. quote 3947 | Native American Culture Ake Hultkrantz, Conceptions of the Soul among North American Indians (Stockbolm, 1954), PP. 412-26
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. . . . quote 3946 | Native American Culture Ake Hultkrantz, Conceptions of the Soul among North American Indians (Stockbolm, 1954), PP. 412-26
