109 Quotes by Black Elk

Everything tries to be round.

When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

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

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

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.

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

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth 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...

I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. 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.

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