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if you know of an unfamiliar thing and can call it by its name, this unfamiliar thing loses its power to strike you with fear.
“The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.
-Chief Luther Standing Bear, Lakota Sioux”
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-Chief Luther Standing Bear, Lakota Sioux”
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“All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.”
― The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems
― The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems
“Western science, following Roger Bacon, believed man could force nature to reveal its secrets; the Sioux simply petitioned nature for friendship. — Vine Deloria, Jr.”
― C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions
― C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions
“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.”
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“I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, void of all humanly qualities, even the categories of scientific description.
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I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.”
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I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.”
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