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Quotes by Black Elk

It is often difficult for those who look on the tradition of the Red Man from the outside or through the "educated"  mind to understand that no object is what it appears to be, but it is simply the pale shadow of a Reality. It is for this reason that every created object is wakan, holy, and has a power according to the loftiness of the spiritual reality it reflects.

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

Black Elk
Source: Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

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The power of the world always works in circles, and everything is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.  The wind in its greatest power whirls.  Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours..... Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.  The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

Black Elk
Source: Songs Of The Earth
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

Black Elk
Source: Black Elk (1863-1950)
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The Holy Land is everywhere

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

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Peace...comes within the souls of [human beings] when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

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