And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
BLACK ELKAnd while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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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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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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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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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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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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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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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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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
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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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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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