There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
BLACK ELKIt 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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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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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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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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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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For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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