It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
BLACK ELKThe center of the universe is everywhere.
More Black Elk Quotes
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I cured with the power that came through me.
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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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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Each 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.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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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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The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
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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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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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