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

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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
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Animal Great Heart Important Rivers Spirit
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
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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Good Memory People Some Vision
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
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 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 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
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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Ignorance Men Passion
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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Country Native Sky Song

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

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