When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
BLACK ELKThe 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.
More Black Elk Quotes
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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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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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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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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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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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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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I 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.
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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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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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The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.
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But 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.
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