Wisdom from Native Americans: Cochise

"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts"
--Cochise ("Like Ironweed")
Chiricahua Chief

Wisdom from Native Americans: Wovoka

"You ask me to plow the ground.  Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom?  Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

You ask me to dig for stones!  Shall I dig under her skin for her bones?  Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.

You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men, but how dare I cut my mother's hair?

I want my people to stay with me here.  All the dead men will come to life again.  Their spirits will come to their bodies again.  We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother."

-Wovoka
Paiute

Wisdom from Native Americans: Chief Seattle

"What is man without the beasts?  If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great lonliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man.  All things are connected.  Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth."

-Chief Seattle
Suqwamish and Duwamish

Weekly motivation!--Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates 

Or, as I've always said: Fake it 'til you make it!!!

See you SCOUTS!!!  Hope this helps.


-Sensei Brian Colwell
We Love Kempo Martial Arts Dojo
"For the love of the Martial Arts"
San Diego, CA 92128