All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
BLACK ELKThe life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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I cured with the power that came through me.
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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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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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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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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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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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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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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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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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