https://revolutionresource.org/2017/11/27/indigenous-wisdom/
“Like the most of you, I was raised among people who knew – who were certain. They did not reason or investigate. They had no doubts…
…We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. We can tell the truth, and we can enjoy the blessed freedom that the brave have won. We can destroy the monsters of superstition, the hissing snakes of ignorance and fear. We can drive from our minds the frightful things that tear and wound with beak and fang. We can civilize our fellow-men. We can fill our lives with generous deeds, with loving words, with art and song, and all the ecstasies of love. We can flood our years with sunshine — with the divine climate of kindness, and we can drain to the last drop the golden cup of joy.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol 1: Lectures
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.”
—Chief Tecumseh
Black Elk (1863-1950) or Hehaka Sapa
Oglala Lakota Sioux South Dakota, USA
“The first peace, which is
the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when
they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe
and all its powers; and when they realize that at the center of the
universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit); and that this center is
really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and
the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which
is made between two individuals; and the third is that which is made
between two nations. But above all, you should understand that there can
never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace,
which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.”
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