Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
BLACK ELKThe power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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I cured with the power that came through me.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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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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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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I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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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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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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