"The power of a thing or an act……" — Black Elk

"The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding."

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75 Quotes by Black Elk

Black Elk has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching…
Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a…
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my…
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree;…
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit…
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the…
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a…
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all…
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The…
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…
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are…

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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