Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
BLACK ELKYou remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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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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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
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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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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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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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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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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.
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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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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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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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