Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
BLACK ELKThey 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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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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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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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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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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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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It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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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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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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