The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
BLACK ELKThe 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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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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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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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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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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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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I cured with the power that came through me.
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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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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Everything tries to be round.
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