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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
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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Boys Girl Girls Learned Warrior
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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Children Country Heart Native
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
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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 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
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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Country Men Native People Thinking
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
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
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
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
Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
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Circle Community Earth Live Together

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