Behold this day. It is yours to make.
BLACK ELKAnd when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
More Black Elk Quotes
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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Each 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.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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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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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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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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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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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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It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Everything tries to be round.
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