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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.

Black Elk

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
BLACK ELK

Darkness Lost Men Vision
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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Arm Father Mother Repee Running Sitting Stallone
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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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Circles Country Inspirational Native
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
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
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
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
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
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
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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Country Native Stars Wind
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
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
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men

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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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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