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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

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 life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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Childhood Everything Life Moves Person
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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might People Vision
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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
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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Inspirational Life Peace
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
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
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
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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Compared Everything Know Prepared World
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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

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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