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Informationen zum Autor Guy A. Zona lives in Clearwater, Florida. Klappentext Drawn from copious research and correspondence with Native American leaders and other tribal sources! these time-honored truths represent the collected experience and wisdom of a culture and offer a universal message to all. Chapter 1 With all things and in all things, we are relatives. (SIOUX) Stand in the light when you want to speak out. (CROW) Life is both giving and receiving. (MOHAWK) I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself. (TRIBE UNKNOWN) All children of Earth will be welcome at our council fires. (SENECA) Good and evil cannot dwell together in the same heart, so a good man ought not to go into evil company. (DELAWARE) Know that we are eager to share our gifts, in the name of love. (SENECA) He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it is as guilty as the wrongdoers. (OMAHA) Give me knowledge, so I may have kindness for all. (PLAINS INDIAN) Treachery darkens the chain of friendship, but truth makes it brighter than ever. (CONESTOGA) Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food. (ARAPAHO) Speak the truth in humility to all people. Only then can you be a true man. (SIOUX) Truth does not happen, it just is. (HOPI) Sin is not allowed in God's tepee. (MOHAWK) Lying is a great shame. (SIOUX) Stolen food never satisfies hunger. (OMAHA) Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim. (NAVAJO) Respect the gift and the giver. (OMAHA) Give your host a little something when you leave; little presents are little courtesies and never offend. (SENECA) I love a people who do not live for the love of money. (DUWAMISH) When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. (ARAPAHO) It is less of a problem to be poor than to be dishonest. (ANISHINABE) Even when we lay down, we lay down on our own path of life. (PAWNEE) A good man does not take what belongs to someone else. (PUEBLO) Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart. (OMAHA) Judge not by the eye but by the heart. (CHEYENNE) Easy money breeds indolence. (ARAPAHO) Be kind to everything that lives. (OMAHA) No one else can represent your conscience. (ANISHINABE) To gossip is like playing checkers with an evil spirit: you win occasionally but are more often trapped at your own game. (HOPI) The rain falls on the just and the unjust. (HOPI) Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosity in the hearts of the young. (LAKOTA) Let no one speak ill of the absent. (HOPI) Those who have one foot in the canoe and one foot in the boat are going to fall into the river. (TUSCARORA) Always assume your guest is tired, cold, and hungry, and act accordingly. (NAVAHO) Love one another and do not strive for another's undoing. (SENECA) We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. (DAKOTA) Never sit while your seniors stand. (CREE) Even as you desire good treatment, so render it. (SENECA) Who serves his fellows is of all the greatest. (DAKOTA) If you dig a pit for me, you dig one for yourself. (C...
