Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. Black Elk More Quotes by Black Elk More Quotes From 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 inspirational peace life 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. Black Elk garden prayer men 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 grandfather wish native-american When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm. Black Elk storm vision rain The center of the universe is everywhere. Black Elk center-of-the-universe universe All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name. Black Elk sky inspirational life 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 vision darkness men Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. Black Elk eye wind giving As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer. Black Elk sacred earth prayer And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. Black Elk rainbow flames color Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred. Black Elk sacred native-american world Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations. Black Elk honesty native-american inspirational Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. Black Elk voice earth grandfather Know the Power that is Peace. Black Elk inspirational-life inspirational life 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. Black Elk circles native-american inspirational The power of the world always works in circles. Black Elk circles native-american world And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. Black Elk breaths lightning It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost. Black Elk eye darkness men And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. Black Elk mother father children 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. Black Elk horse summer years
