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“Perhaps you have noticed that even in the slightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in different ways.”
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”
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“Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“We walked in wisdom with our shadows, in search of the dead part of ourselves, which would be our shelter.”
― Nehanda
― Nehanda
“All publicity works upon anxiety.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
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