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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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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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
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
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
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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Clouds Mountain Whisper White
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
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
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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Given Make Nations Over Said
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
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Animal Great Heart Important Rivers Spirit
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
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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Country Native Sky Song
The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.
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Air Animal Country Native

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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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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