The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Jospeh, Nez Perce (1840 – 1904)
Chief Joseph Quote – “We may quarrel with men about things on Earth…”
We may quarrel with men about things on Earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. Chief Jospeh, Nez Perce (1840 – 1904)
Chief Joseph Quote – “We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything…”
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will give every man a spirit home according to his deserts. This I believe, and all my people believe the same. Chief Jospeh, Nez Perce (1840 – 1904)
Chief Gray Eagle Quote – “All things in the world are two…”
All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil. With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly. We have the right hand that strikes and makes for evil, and we have the left hand full of kindness, near the heart. One foot may lead us […]
Chief Dan George Quote – “How desperately do we need to be loved and to love…”
My friends, how desperately do we need to be loved and to love. Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look […]
Thomas Traherne Quote – “Love is the one supreme duty and good…”
Love is the one supreme duty and good. That love is wisdom and purity and valour and peace, and its infinite sorrow is infinitely better than the world’s richest joy. Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)
Henry David Thoreau Quote – “God Himself culminates in the present moment…”
Men esteem Truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God Himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all […]
Henry David Thoreau Quote – “Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Henry David Thoreau Quote – “Time is but a stream I go a-fishin in…”
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be mortifying in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy […]
Rabindranath Tagore Quote – “The infinite seeks the intimate presence of the finite…”
The infinite seeks the intimate presence of the finite, the finite to disappear in the infinite. I do not know whose scheme this is, that the bound should be on a search for freedom, freedom asking to be housed in the bound. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)