The center of the universe is everywhere.

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

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

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.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.