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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Black Elk

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
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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Eye Giving Hear Quarter Wind
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
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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might People Vision
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Close Doing Everything Foolish
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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Summer Thinking Years
The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Ceremonies Everything Foolish Legend Power
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps

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