The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

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.

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.

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

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.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.