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Cherokee Prayer Blessing
May the Warm Winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks
in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one getting burned." ~Buddha
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
~Chinese proverb
Preach always- If necessary use words- St. Francis
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
~Michel de Montaigne
An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind – Gandhi
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
~Ralph Hodgson
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
~Native American Proverb
Life is an echo; what you send out comes back.
~Chinese Proverb
Native American Prayer
Oh, Great Spirit
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me, I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my Spirit may come to you without shame.
~translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887
published in Native American Prayers - by the Episcopal Church.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
~Benjamin Franklin
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
~William Shakespeare
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
~Hal Borland
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still;
be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists
-- as it surely will.
Then act with courage.
~Ponca Chief White Eagle (1800's to 1914)
Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier.
~– Mother Teresa
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~Lao Tzu
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha
May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
~Chief Dan George
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth’s loveliness.
~Michelangelo
May the Warm Winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks
in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one getting burned." ~Buddha
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
~Chinese proverb
Preach always- If necessary use words- St. Francis
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
~Michel de Montaigne
An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind – Gandhi
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
~Ralph Hodgson
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
~Native American Proverb
Life is an echo; what you send out comes back.
~Chinese Proverb
Native American Prayer
Oh, Great Spirit
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me, I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my Spirit may come to you without shame.
~translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887
published in Native American Prayers - by the Episcopal Church.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
~Benjamin Franklin
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
~William Shakespeare
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
~Hal Borland
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still;
be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists
-- as it surely will.
Then act with courage.
~Ponca Chief White Eagle (1800's to 1914)
Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier.
~– Mother Teresa
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~Lao Tzu
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha
May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
~Chief Dan George
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth’s loveliness.
~Michelangelo
