Black Elk Quotes

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• Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power,…
• 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 is!…
• I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still…
• Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its…
• We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the…
• Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
• The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
• The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in…
• Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is…
• Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
• Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to…
• But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is…
• One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
• It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
• The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle,…
• And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
• It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
• When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision…
• Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his…
• Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.

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