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The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

Black Elk

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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
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
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
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
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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Earth Order Power Vision
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native
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 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

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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