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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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The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
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Country Heart Mind Native Voice
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
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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Dead Except Lying People Saws
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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Cured Outer Power Two Vision World
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
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
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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Beautiful Save Sooner Thinking Wise
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
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
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
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

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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