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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.

Black Elk

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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Earth Order Power Vision
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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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Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way
I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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Good Memory People Some Vision
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
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
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.
BLACK ELK

Country Men Native People Thinking
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
BLACK ELK

Earth Red Sticks
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
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.
BLACK ELK

Arm Father Mother Repee Running Sitting Stallone
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
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
BLACK ELK

Beautiful Save Sooner Thinking Wise
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 cured with the power that came through me.
BLACK ELK

Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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 visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.

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