Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
BLACK ELKSometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
BLACK ELKThe 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.
BLACK ELKWe should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
BLACK ELKThe power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
BLACK ELKEach family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
BLACK ELKThe song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
BLACK ELKWhen 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.
BLACK ELKNow 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 ELKI cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
BLACK ELKAny 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 ELKHear 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 ELKBut the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
BLACK ELKIt is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
BLACK ELKI looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
BLACK ELKThere can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
BLACK ELKAnd I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
BLACK ELK