There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
BLACK ELKEverything 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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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 I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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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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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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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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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I cured with the power that came through me.
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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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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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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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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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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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