Thomas Yellowtail Quotes

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Spiritual matters are difficult to explain
because you must live with them in order
to fully understand them.

Thomas Yellowtail

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

Thomas Yellowtail

The manner with which we walk through life is each man's most important responsibility, and we should remember this with every new sunrise.

Thomas Yellowtail

Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are correct, and that if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a guide.

Thomas Yellowtail

Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of
God.

Thomas Yellowtail

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.

Thomas Yellowtail

But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.

Thomas Yellowtail

It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success
is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in
Creation and his relationship to all things.

Thomas Yellowtail

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

Thomas Yellowtail

Thomas Yellowtail

Thomas Yellowtail

Born: March 7, 1903

Died: 1993 (aged 89)

Bio: Thomas Yellowtail was a Medicine Man and Sun Dance chief of the Crow tribe for over thirty years prior to his death. Thomas Yellowtail's adult life was dedicated to the adherence to, and preservation of, the Sun Dance religion.

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