All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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.
More Black Elk Quotes
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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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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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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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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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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 life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Everything tries to be round.
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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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The 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.
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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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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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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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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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