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

Black Elk

And 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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Circles Country Inspirational Native
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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might People Vision
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
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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Inspirational Life Peace
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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Children Daylight Flowering Hoops Shelter
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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Country Everything Foolish Native
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Air Country Eagle Feathered Wings
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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Earth Order Power Vision
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
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

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