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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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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 may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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Bird Bloom Depression Roots Singing
Everything tries to be round.
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Education Statistics Trying
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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Earth Red Sticks
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
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
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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Country Darkness Eye Men Native
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together
When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.
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Country Death Native Real Understanding

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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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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