365 Days Of Walking The Red Road Quotes

“From the beginning there were drums, beating out world rhythm—the booming, never-failing tide on the beach; the four seasons, gliding smoothly, one from the other; when the birds come, when they go, the bear hibernating for his winter sleep. Unfathomable the way, yet all in perfect time. Watch the heartbeat in your wrist—a precise pulsing beat of life’s Drum—with loss of timing you are ill. —JIMALEE BURTON (HO-CHEE-NEE), CHEROKEE, 1974”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“Never has the earth been so lovely nor the sun so bright, as today . . . —NIKINAPI”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“The Cherokee lives as a natural part of his environment and strives to complement it, not subdue or dominate it. It’s an Indian philosophy that is playing an increasing role in everyone’s life now that we realize that natural resources are limited and imbalance between man’s technology and nature is perilously close to disaster. —HUEY P. LONG, CHEROKEE”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“Do not allow others to make your path for you. It is your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Accept yourself and your actions. Own your thoughts. Speak up when wrong, and apologize. Know your path at all times. To do this you must know yourself inside and out, accept your gifts as well as your shortcomings, and grow each day with honesty, integrity, compassion, faith, and brotherhood.”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. —CHIEF SEATTLE (SEATHL), DUWAMISH-SUQUAMISH, 1785–1866 A”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“Civilization has been thrust upon me . . . and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. —LUTHER STANDING BEAR, OGLALA SIOUX, 1868–1937 On”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“O’ Great Spirit help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence. —CHEROKEE PRAYER W”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“The Crow country is good country. The Great Spirit has put it exactly in the right place; while you are in it you fare well; whenever you go out of it, which ever way you travel, you fare worse . . . There is no country like Crow country. —ARAPOOSH, CROW, 1833”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“January 1 What 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. —CROWFOOT,”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“Why do you take by force what
you could obtain by love? —WAHUNSONACOCK (POWHATAN),
POWHATAN, 1547–1622”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“Though the road is littered with obstacles, all can be overcome once internal balance is achieved and the soul is true to itself and to others.”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“live in the United States.”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“According to the U.S. census, 1,959,234 American Indians live in the United”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“Reverend Samuel Worcester was released from a Georgia prison, after serving four years of hard labor for speaking out against the mistreatment of Cherokee Indians.”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“Why do you take by force what you could obtain by love? —WAHUNSONACOCK (POWHATAN), POWHATAN, 1547–1622 On”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day

“The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. —HUNKESNI (SITTING BULL), HUNKPAPA SIOUX, 1831-1890 A”
― Terri Jean, 365 Days Of Walking The Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day