Everything tries to be round.
BLACK ELKIf 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.
More Black Elk Quotes
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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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.
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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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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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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.
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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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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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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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.
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It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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