Certain things catch your eye,
But pursue only those
that capture your heart.
old indian saying
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Native American Proverb.
Certain things catch your eye,
But pursue only those
that capture your heart.
old indian saying
Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.
~Standing Bear
The GREAT FATHER above a SHEPHERD CHIEF is.
I am His and with Him I want not.
He throws out to me a rope and the name of the rope is love
and He draws me to where the grass is green and the water is not dangerous,
and I eat and lie down and am satisfied.
Sometimes my heart is very weak and falls down
but He lifts me up again draws me into a good road.
His name is WONDERFUL .
Sometimes, it may be very soon, it may be a long long time,
He will draw me into a valley.
It is dark there, but I’ll be afraid not,
for it is between those mountains that the SHEPHERD CHIEF will meet me
and the hunger that I have in my heart all through life will be satisfied.
Sometimes he makes the love rope into a whip,
but afterwards He gives me a staff to lean upon.
He spreads a table before me with all kinds of foods.
He puts His hand upon my head and all the ” tired ” is gone.
My cup he fills till it runs over.
What I tell is true. I lie not.
These roads that are “away ahead” will stay with me
through this life and after;
and afterwards I will go to live in the Big Teepee
and sit down with the SHEPHERD CHIEF forever.
And while I stood there
I saw more than I can tell,
and I understood more than I saw;
for I was seeing in a sacred manner
the shapes of things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must
live together like one being.
Black Elk, Black Elk speaks
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