Black Elk was a prominent Lakota Sioux visionary and healer
1.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 the Wakan-Taka Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. 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.
2. At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.
3. Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is everywhere.
4. Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions.
5. As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
6. What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
7. All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
8. 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.
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt
We are all Interconnected even with the Universe 