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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.

Black Elk

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.
BLACK ELK

Country Death Native Real Understanding
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
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.
BLACK ELK

Good Memory People Some Vision
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
BLACK ELK

Summer Thinking Years
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
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
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.
BLACK ELK

Cured Outer Power Two Vision World
For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Air Country Eagle Feathered Wings
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
BLACK ELK

Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
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
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
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Country Darkness Eye Men Native
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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 ELK

Compared Everything Know Prepared World

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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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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