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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

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
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.
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Country Death Native Real Understanding
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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Clouds Mountain Whisper White
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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Country Everything Foolish Native
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
When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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Animal Country Down Hawk Lament Swoops
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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Color Flames Rainbow
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle
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 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
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
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Children Daylight Flowering Hoops Shelter
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
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Animal Great Heart Important Rivers Spirit

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

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