And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
BLACK ELKAnd as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
BLACK ELKAs you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
BLACK ELKIt 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 ELKThe life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
BLACK ELKFor 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.
BLACK ELKThe power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
BLACK ELKHear 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 ELKGrown 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 ELKBut I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
BLACK ELKI cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
BLACK ELKThe visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
BLACK ELKThe song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
BLACK ELKEverything 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.
BLACK ELKOut 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 ELKEach family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
BLACK ELKIt is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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