When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.