Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
BLACK ELKKnow the Power that is Peace.
More Black Elk Quotes
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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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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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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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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I cured with the power that came through me.
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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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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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 tries to be round.
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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