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It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Black Elk

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
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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Ignorance Men Passion
The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Ceremonies Everything Foolish Legend Power
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
It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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Bird Bloom Depression Roots Singing
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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Cured Outer Power Two Vision World
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.
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Beautiful Save Sooner Thinking Wise
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
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
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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Children Country Heart 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
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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Earth Red Sticks
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
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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Given Make Nations Over Said
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People

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