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Black Elk

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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Color Flames Rainbow
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
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
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
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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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together
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
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle
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
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way
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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Close Doing Everything Foolish
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same

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