We are One

This earth, this world. For a warrior there can be no greater love. . . .

This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling.

We must try to use the pipe for mankind, which is on the road to self-destruction. . . . This can be done only if all of us, natives and non-natives alike, can again see ourselves as part of the earth, not as an enemy from the outside who tries to impose its will on it. Because we also know that, being a living part of the earth, we cannot harm any part of her without hurting ourselves.

But our Native religion is all one religion, the Great Spirit. We're thankful that we're on this Mother Earth. That's the first thing when we wake up in the morning, is to be thankful to the Great Sprit for the Mother Earth: how we live, what it produces, what keeps everything alive.

The four-leggeds and the wings of the air and the mother earth were supposed to be relative-like. . . . The first thing a Native learns is to love each other and that they should be relative-like to the four-leggeds. And thus we see this very strong kinship relation to the Wemi Tali, the "All Where": The Great Spirit made the flowers, the streams, the pines, the cedars—takes care of them. . . . He takes care of me, waters me, feeds me, makes me live with plants and animals as one of them. . . . All of nature is in us, all of us is in nature.

Follow your traditions, never forget who you are.
Be good, be kind, help each other.
Respect the ground, respect the drum, respect each other.

Take Action.
There is only now.
Focus on what you want not what you don't want.
Smile, Breathe, Go Slowly.
There isn't a road to happiness, happiness is the road.
A candle looses nothing if it is used to light another candle.
Your soul is dyed according to the colour of your thoughts.
Meditate.

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