Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
BLACK ELKKnow the Power that is Peace.
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
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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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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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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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I cured with the power that came through me.
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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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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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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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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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