Circle

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:


"Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round."

—Black Elk, Lakota Sioux medicine man, quoted in Black Elk Speaks by J. G. Neihardt

Comments

[helios137.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this quote. Here's my favorite words of Black Elk:

“Then 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 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.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy...

But anywhere is the center of the world.”

- Black Elk

[pjthompson]

That's lovely! Thank you for sharing that.