Becoming A Brilliant Star
American Indigenous

General

In the Navajo religion and culture, there is an emphasis on how you relate to everything around you. Everything has to be measured, weighed, and harmonious. We call it nizhoni—walking in beauty.
American Indigenous Religions, Lori Cupp (Navajo)

May you always walk in Beauty.
American Indigenous Religions, Ancient Prayer

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. 
American Indigenous Religions, Chief Seattle (Suquamish)

Character

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations. 
American Indigenous Religions, Black Elk (Oglala Sioux) 

[O]ur traditional values are based on order,…decency, …wisdom, … and health... These endow us with the knowledge that our life is our religion; this land is our church; and the universe is our relative. 
American Indigenous Religions, Elizabeth A. Wells (Mescalero Apache) 
Style

…everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. 
American Indigenous Religions, Mourning Dove [Christine Quintasket] (Salish)

Spirit

The Great Spirit is in all things, is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us; that which we put into the ground, She returns to us....
American Indigenous Religions, Big Thunder [Bedagi] (Wabanaki Algonquin)

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
American Indigenous Religions, Chief Seattle (Suquamish)

Physical

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. 
American Indigenous Religions, Ancient Proverb

Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. 
American Indigenous Religions, Chief Seattle (Suquamish)

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. 
American Indigenous Religions, Chief Seattle (Suquamish)

Cognition

Affect

Conation

The path of the lazy leads to disgrace.
Proverb (Omaha) 

Family

My dear sisters the women, you have had a hard life to live in this world, yet without you this world would not be what it is…By your hands the family moves. 
American Indigenous Religions, Sioux Tradition of the Sacred Pipe

Women are sacred. If you make your wife suffer, you will die in a short time. Our grandmother, Earth, is a woman, and in abusing your wife you are abusing her. 
American Indigenous Religions, Winnebago Tradition

May my father bless you with life;
May your road reach to Dawn Lake,
May your road be fulfilled. 
American Indigenous Religions, Zuni Prayer

Friendship

Career/Work

Finances/Wealth

Social

The truest and greatest power is the strength of Peace…because Peace is the will of the Great Spirit.
American Indigenous Religions, Hopi Declaration of Peace

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
American Indigenous Religions, Proverb (Teton Sioux) 

Do not seek to benefit only yourself, but think of other people also. 
American Indigenous Religions, Yamana Eskimo Initiation

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