We first Americans mingle with our pride an exceptional humility.Spiritual arrogance is foreign to our nature and teaching. We neverclaimed that the power of articulate speech is proof of superiorityover "dumb creation"; on the other hand, it is to us a perilous gift.
We believe profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium.Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit.those who can preserve their selfhood ever calm and unshaken by thestorms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree; nota ripple upon the shining pool - those, in the mind of the person ofnature, possess the ideal attitude and conduct of life.

Ohiyesa
The Ways of the Spirit
The Wisdom of the Native Americans