Black Elk Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

  Black Elk

  Flames, Color, Rainbow

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

• It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.

  Black Elk

  Death, Real, Understanding

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux". Book by Black Elk and Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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

  Black Elk

  Power, Understanding

  "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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