Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
BLACK ELKI cured with the power that came through me.
More Black Elk Quotes
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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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And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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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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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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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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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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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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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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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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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It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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