Perhaps you have noticed that even in the slightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in different ways.The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.'.The Great Spirit is everywhere He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. Quotes The Sacred Pipe (1953) The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (1953), as told to Joseph Epes Brown All the things of the universe are joined with you who smoke the pipe - All send their voices to Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit.
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