I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
BLACK ELKKnow the Power that is Peace.
More Black Elk Quotes
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Everything tries to be round.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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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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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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They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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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 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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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