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…

— Thomas Yellowtail

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

— Thomas Yellowtail

Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever…

— Thomas Yellowtail

To be able to greet the sun with the sounds from all of Nature is a great blessing, and it helps us…

— Thomas Yellowtail

Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are correct, and that if we do not…

— Thomas Yellowtail

You must be prepared and know the reason why you dance.

— Thomas Yellowtail

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred,…

— Thomas Yellowtail

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Thomas Yellowtail

Each person's prayers can help everyone.

— 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

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

— Thomas Yellowtail

Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.

— Thomas Yellowtail

People think other things are more important than prayer, but they are mistaken.

— Thomas Yellowtail

Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong.

— Thomas Yellowtail

A vision could put you on a path you don't want to follow.

— Thomas Yellowtail