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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Circles Country Native Power
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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Country Everything Foolish Native
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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
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
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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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Circles Country Native Strong
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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Beautiful Save Sooner Thinking Wise
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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Compared Everything Know Prepared World
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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Darkness Lost Men Vision
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

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