Black Elk on circles
Black Elk48 quotes“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 be round.”
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The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.
Black ElkBlack Elk All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
Black ElkBlack Elk Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.
Bonnie D. ParkinBonnie D. Parkin I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Black ElkBlack Elk He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
Black ElkBlack Elk The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
Black ElkBlack Elk Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
BonoBono Know the Power that is Peace.
Black ElkBlack Elk Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
Black ElkBlack Elk I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black ElkBlack Elk You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic-” “Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted.
Brandon MullBrandon Mull We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
Yasmin MogahedYasmin Mogahed As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
Black ElkBlack Elk One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it’s my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
Zooey DeschanelZooey Deschanel The power of the world always works in circles.
Black ElkBlack Elk Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
Bob GoffBob Goff The power of the world always works in circles.
Black ElkBlack Elk Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
Black ElkBlack Elk Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
Black ElkBlack Elk You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.
Bill PetersonBill Peterson 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 I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
Black ElkBlack Elk I’ve been lucky with the circle of people I’m playing with. We’ve played enough that there’s a language we talk with each other when we play.
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