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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

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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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Childhood Everything Life Moves Person
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
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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Country Men Native People Thinking
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
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
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
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
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
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
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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Bird Bloom Depression Roots Singing
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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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Circle Community Earth Live Together

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

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