Status Updates From Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions

this is so funny and sad and so many important things all at once

“Pain to us is not "abstract," but very real. It is when we are fasting on the hilltop, or tearing our flesh at the sun dance, that we experience the sudden insight, come closest to the mind of the Great Spirit. Insight does not come cheaply, and we want no angel or saint to gain it for us and give it to us secondhand.”

“You understand that there are certain things one should not talk about, things that must remain hidden. If all was told, supposing they lived a person who could tell all, there would be no mysteries left, and that would be a very bad. Man cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.”