Quotes from Kent Nerburn

What is needed is only a pausing of the heart so the spirit can take wing and be lifted toward the infinite.

It's because Abraham Lincoln is dead. But, now, Jesus is dead, too. But he can come alive if you bring him into your heart. That's what they always say. Here's the question: Why can't Abraham Lincoln come alive if you bring him into your heart?

the paper on my lap. Slowly

Following the Nez Perce Trail: A Guide to the Nee-Me-Poo National Historic Trail with Eyewitness Accounts.

When you allow your fear or your insecurity or your unrealistic belief in perfection too control you, you are betraying that possibility of life. You are saying that you do not have faith in the artistic child born of the union between your imagination and your talent. You are measuring your art by your own standards of excellence rather than trusting your art and letting it make its way into the hearts of others by its own devices.

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Following the Nez Perce Trail is

the ultimate purpose of the treaties was not fairness and equity but control and containment that enabled white settlement to continue unrestricted and unabated, all legal and extralegal measures necessary to ensure this had to be taken. If bribes had to be offered, lies told, or conditions abrogated in order to meet changing circumstances or to overcome Indian obstinacy, so be it. If

You need to trust that your art, once created, has a value apart from you, just as a child, come into the world, has a value separate from the parents who gave it life. When you give in to self-loathing, insecurity, or stage fright, you are looking at your work from the outside, and the outside is a shapeless darkness that contains all your self-doubt and fears.

It is not for you to say whether or not your work has life: that is between your work -the child of your creation now living a life of its own- and those who encounter it.

If we find ourselves tempted to celebrate one approach over the other, we should remember the caution of the Chinese sage Confucius, who told his followers, "Study without thinking and you are blind; think without studying and you are in danger."       Formal

In the last analysis, we must all, Indian and no-Indian, come together. This earth is our mother, this land is our shared heritage. Our histories and fates are intertwined, no matter where our ancestors were born and how they interacted with each other.

In the last analysis, we must all, Indian and non-Indian, come together. This earth is our mother, this land is our shared heritage. Our histories and fates are intertwined, no matter where our ancestors were born and how they interacted with each other.

We are not all called to be great. But we are all called to reach out our hands to our brothers and sisters, and to care for the earth in the time we are given.

One by one the men made their positions known, some speaking, some giving the blanket sign of covering their shoulders when their feelings had been well expressed by another.

To be a real traveler you must be willing to give yourself over to the moment and take yourself out of the center of your universe

If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

If your art cannot support your life, your life must support your art.

Your dream of being discovered by the public will become the burden of being defined.

The greater your success, the greater the forces that will try to confine you.

In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But maybe it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that allows us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.

You destroyed it with crosses and diseases and whiskey and guns.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

The moments when you are feeling most lost are simply the moments when your art is seeking new growth.