We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the gras…

- Black Elk

Behold this day. It is yours to make.

- Black Elk

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 t…

- Black Elk

I cured with the power that came through me.

- Black Elk

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

- Black Elk

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many thi…

- Black Elk

Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.

- Black Elk

I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more th…

- Black Elk

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

- Black Elk