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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
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 looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
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Dead Except Lying People Saws
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
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
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
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Country Darkness Eye Men Native
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
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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Country Heart Mind Native Voice
A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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Given Make Nations Over Said
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

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