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

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

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.

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 looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

The center of the universe is everywhere.