Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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.
More Black Elk Quotes
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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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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Any 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
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
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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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The center of the universe 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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But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
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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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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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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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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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