When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.
Black ElkThe soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
Black ElkAt the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.
Black ElkI was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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