black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Black Elk

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.
BLACK ELK

Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
BLACK ELK

Darkness Eye Men
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
BLACK ELK

Children Daylight Flowering Hoops Shelter
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
BLACK ELK

Country Native Sacred World
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
BLACK ELK

Ignorance Men Passion
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
BLACK ELK

Birds Nests Religion Same
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
BLACK ELK

Country Darkness Eye Men Native
Know the Power that is Peace.
BLACK ELK

Inspirational Life Peace Power
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
BLACK ELK

might People Vision
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
BLACK ELK

Behold Inspirational Life
When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
BLACK ELK

Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
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.
BLACK ELK

Eye Giving Hear Quarter Wind
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
BLACK ELK

Summer Thinking Years
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 ELK

Children Country Heart Native
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
BLACK ELK

Breath Country Lightning Native
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
BLACK ELK

Earth Prayer Steps

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Black Elk Quotes