Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
BLACK ELKOut 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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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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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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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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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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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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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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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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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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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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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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