Quotes

“Let me be a free man. Free to travel. Free to stop. Free to work. F ree to choose my own teachers. Free to follow the religion of my fathers. Free to think and talk and act for myself.”

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

Someday has arrived

Life is now. Stop waiting for your opportunity to fully live and realize that it is already here.
Perhaps you have always thought that someday you will follow your dreams. The fact is, someday has now arrived. Your authentic purpose is calling out to you. Now is the time to be fulfilling that purpose. Go now in the direction you've always known you must go. Allow the unique and beautiful person you are to come fully to life. Let go of the excuses and rationalizations that keep you mired in disappointment and frustration. Move quickly forward by continually reminding yourself of why you are doing so. This is the moment for bold, yet sincere action. Someday is here, and the richness of life is now yours to experience.

-- Ralph Marston

The Great Spirit Prayer

Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to all the world.

Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes
ever behold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise, so that I may understand
the things you have taught my people.

Help me to remain calm and strong in
the face of all that comes towards me.

Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.

Help me seek pure thoughts and act
with the intention of helping others.

Help me find compassion
without empathy overwhelming me.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy, Myself.

Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.

-author unknown-

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

HBO Films teams with executive producers Dick Wolf ("Law & Order") and Tom Thayer to present a feature adaptation of Dee Brown's 1971 nonfiction best-seller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Told primarily through the eyes of three characters Charles Eastman (Adam Beach), Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg) and Senator Henry Dawes (Aidan Quinn) - the film explores the United States' obsession with its manifest destiny, detailing the economic, political and social pressures that underpinned the opening of the American West in the latter part of the 19th Century, and the tragic and permanent impact this expansion had on American Indian culture.

Premieres Sunday, May 27 at 9PM/8C


http://www.hbo.com/films/burymyheart/index.html


Click on link to visit HBO website for more information and trailer for movie.