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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eye men humanity
It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
inspirational life sky
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
honesty native-american generosity
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.
center-of-the-universe universe
The center of the universe is everywhere.
may walks
May you always walk in Beauty.
hurt horse crazy
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.... It was this vision that gave him his great power, for when he went into a fight, he had only to think of that world to be in it again, so that he could go through anything and not be hurt
beautiful dream children
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.
nature attention lessons
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
circles community together
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth. It (the community) cares for that part (of the Earth) but cares for it as a circle - which is to say in a cooperative and egalitarian way, where everybody is cared for, and everybody is respected.
heart men oneness
Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.
men darkness vision
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
prayer steps earth
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
children native-american heart
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
dream waking wake-up
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.