Everything tries to be round.
BLACK ELKI was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
More Black Elk Quotes
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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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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
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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.
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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….
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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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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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The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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