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.
BLACK ELKThere can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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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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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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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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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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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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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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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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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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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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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I cured with the power that came through me.
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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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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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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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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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It 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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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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A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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