All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
BLACK ELKIt is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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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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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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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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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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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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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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.
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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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Everything tries to be round.
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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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Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
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