Black Elk on red
Black Elk48 quotes“So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.”
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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
Black ElkBlack Elk You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Black ElkBlack Elk It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
Black ElkBlack Elk But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black ElkBlack Elk And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black ElkBlack Elk A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
Black ElkBlack Elk Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black ElkBlack Elk 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 trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
Black ElkBlack Elk The Holy Land is everywhere.
Black ElkBlack Elk We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
Black ElkBlack Elk And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
Black ElkBlack Elk Everything tries to be round.
Black ElkBlack Elk Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
Black ElkBlack Elk It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.
Black ElkBlack Elk Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
Black ElkBlack Elk I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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Aaron BellAaron Bell And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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Adolphe MenjouAdolphe Menjou Red lips like a living, laughing rose.
Violet NicolsonViolet Nicolson When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.
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