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.
BLACK ELKIt may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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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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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It 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.
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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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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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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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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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Out 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.
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
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