The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness ….

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 ….

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man,….

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World..

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

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name..

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices..

The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoo….

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; ….

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 lyin….

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and ….

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

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles..

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost..

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….

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountain….

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 ….

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; ….

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice..

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked..

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