Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

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

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.