I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are, but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man.
Sun Bear of the Chippewa Tribe
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From Wakan Tanka the Great Mystery comes all…
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)
The first sign we don’t know what we…
The first sign we don’t know what we are doing is an obsession with numbers.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are two ways to be fooled One…
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Experience is not what happens to you it…
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley