X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Medicine Man Inspirational Quotes (54)

Page 1 of 3
Filter & Style
Image
Prayer is the best answer to all of the trials that face us, because without prayer, even if we succeed in accomplishing some great goal in the eyes of men, we have failed in our sacred responsibilities, and thus we have failed in what is truly important.
Thomas Yellowtail
Image
People think other things are more important than prayer, but they are mistaken.
Thomas Yellowtail
Image
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
Black Elk
Image
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
Black Elk
Image
Each person's prayers can help everyone.
Thomas Yellowtail
Image
The power of the world always works in circles.
Black Elk
Image
The Holy Land is everywhere.
Black Elk
Image
Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of God.
Thomas Yellowtail
Image
The center of the universe is everywhere.
Black Elk
Image
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
Black Elk
Image
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
Black Elk
Image
Every place is the center of the world.
Black Elk
Image
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk
Image
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 but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
Black Elk
Image
Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong.
Thomas Yellowtail
Image
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 mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers.
Black Elk
Image
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 but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
Black Elk
Image
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black Elk
Image
It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
Black Elk
Image
To be able to greet the sun with the sounds from all of Nature is a great blessing, and it helps us to remember Who is the real provider of all of our benefits.
Thomas Yellowtail
Image
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
Black Elk
Image
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
Black Elk
Image
It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in Creation and his relationship to all things.
Thomas Yellowtail
Image
It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
Black Elk
Previous
Next