There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
BLACK ELKThe boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
More Black Elk Quotes
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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.
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Everything tries to be round.
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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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, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
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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.
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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….
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It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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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! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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