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.
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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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It 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.
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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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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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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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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