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.
BLACK ELKHe 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.
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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I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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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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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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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.
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Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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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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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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