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Black Elk48 quotes“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.”
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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 So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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.
Black ElkBlack Elk There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black ElkBlack Elk It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
Black ElkBlack Elk The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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