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Indianische Weisheiten

When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.


White Elk

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)

Hold On

Hold on to what is good,
Even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if someday I'll be gone away from you.

 

    A Pueblo Indian Prayer

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, Black Elk Speaks

When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Cree Prophecy

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.



Abuse no one and no thing,

for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.



When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled
with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep
and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero - going home.

Chief Tecumseh (Crouching Tiger) Shawnee Nation 1768-1813

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to urselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.

 

Chief Seattle, 1854

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