When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.
John TrudellI've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.
John TrudellWeโre not Indians and weโre not Native Americans. Weโre older than both concepts. Weโre the people, weโre the human beings.
John TrudellThe great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.
John Trudell