Black Elk on sacred
Black Elk48 quotes“As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.”
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You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic-” “Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted.
Brandon MullBrandon Mull We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
Yasmin MogahedYasmin Mogahed One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it’s my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
Zooey DeschanelZooey Deschanel The power of the world always works in circles.
Black ElkBlack Elk Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
Black ElkBlack Elk 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.
Black ElkBlack Elk Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
Black ElkBlack Elk 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.
Black ElkBlack Elk 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
Black ElkBlack Elk Behold this day. It is yours to make.
Black ElkBlack Elk Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
Black ElkBlack Elk You 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.
Black ElkBlack Elk It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
Black ElkBlack Elk But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black ElkBlack Elk And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black ElkBlack Elk 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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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole.
Adam FrankAdam Frank To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.
Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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