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Know the Power that is Peace.

Black Elk

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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Close Doing Everything Foolish
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
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
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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Country Native Sky Song
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
But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
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Around Islands Legegd Little Smaler
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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Summer Thinking Years
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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 as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
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
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
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men

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