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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding. — Black Elk

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. — Black Elk

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices. — Black Elk

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer. — Black Elk

May you always walk in Beauty. — Black Elk

The center of the universe is everywhere. — Black Elk

there can be no power in a square — Black Elk

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. — Black Elk

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One. — Black Elk

Everything tries to be round. — Black Elk

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 — Black Elk

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. — Black Elk

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name. — Black Elk

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. — Black Elk

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. — Black Elk

I knew that the real was yonder and that the darkened dream of it was here. — Black Elk

Behold this day. It is yours to make. — Black Elk

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. — Black Elk

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw. — Black Elk

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. — Black Elk

It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost. — Black Elk

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. — Black Elk

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. — Black Elk

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. — Black Elk

The Holy Land is everywhere — Black Elk

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us. — Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. — Black Elk

I cured with the power that came through me. — Black Elk

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. — Black Elk

A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over. — Black Elk

Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where. — Black Elk

It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power. — Black Elk

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked. — Black Elk

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. — Black Elk

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle. — Black Elk

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is. — Black Elk

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk

Know the Power that is Peace. — Black Elk

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer. — Black Elk

A good nation I will make live. — Black Elk

When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything. — Black Elk

Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true. — Black Elk

It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way. — Black Elk

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred. — Black Elk

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling. — Black Elk

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost. — Black Elk