It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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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 Holy Land is everywhere.
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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
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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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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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