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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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.
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Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
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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Country Heart Mind Native Voice
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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Given Make Nations Over Said
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 life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.
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Air Animal Country Native
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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
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
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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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Circles Country Inspirational Native

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

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