109 Quotes by Black Elk

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

The power of the world always works in circles.

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

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

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

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

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.