Black Elk Quotes

Everything is together—spiritual and political.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

...oneness is the secret to everything.

The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic of the holy relationship. It's the ability to celebrate and honor in all others, the place where we're all one. ...establish a holy relationship with your Source, the world community, your neighbors, acquaintances, family, the animal kingdom, our planet, and yourself.

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

Gandhi reminded those who followed his faith that perhaps its most important aspect was its commitment to oneness.

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

You ain't no more than me, and I ain't no more than you. We're all God's children.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.