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 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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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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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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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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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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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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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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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I cured with the power that came through me.
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I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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