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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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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Good Memory People Some Vision
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle
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
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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 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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Country Native Stars Wind
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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Boys Girl Girls Learned Warrior
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
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
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
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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Circles Country Native Strong
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

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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