Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things:… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
