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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. (Black Elk )
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. (Black Elk )
When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. (Black Elk )
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. (Black Elk )
Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. (Black Elk )
You have to think big to be big. (Black Elk )
The only limits are, as always, those of vision. (Black Elk )
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. (Black Elk )
The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end. (Black Elk )
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses. (Black Elk )
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. (Black Elk )
Aim for the highest. (Black Elk )
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust. (Black Elk )
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. (Black Elk )
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Black Elk )
Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. (Black Elk )
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing... (Black Elk )
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. (Black Elk )
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. (Black Elk )
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development. (Black Elk )
Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone. (Black Elk )
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