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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

Black Elk

He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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Compared Everything Know Prepared World
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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Country Native Sky Song
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Close Doing Everything Foolish
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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Inspirational Life Peace
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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Country Men Native People Thinking
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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Childhood Everything Life Moves Person
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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Fog Glowing Meaning Talk Thinking Words
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Anything Country Horse Native Summer Years

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

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