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.
BLACK ELKWe should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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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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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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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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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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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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I cured with the power that came through me.
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Everything tries to be round.
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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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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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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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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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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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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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Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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