The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
BLACK ELKI 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.
More Black Elk Quotes
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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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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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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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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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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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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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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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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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A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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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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It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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