The First Peace – Black Elk

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 at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. — Black Elk (Heȟáka Sápa)

source: The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux