Black Elk
Black Elk
Heȟáka Sápa was a famous wičháša wakȟáŋand heyoka of the Oglala Lakotawho lived in the present-day United States, primarily South Dakota. He was a second cousin of the war chief Crazy Horse...
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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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
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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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It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. 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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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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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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May you always walk in Beauty.