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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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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
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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Country Native Sky Song
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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Eye Giving Hear Quarter Wind
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
For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Air Country Eagle Feathered Wings
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
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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Given Make Nations Over Said
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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Circle Community Earth Live Together
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 hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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Animal Country Down Hawk Lament Swoops
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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Darkness Lost Men Vision
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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Arm Father Mother Repee Running Sitting Stallone
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
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Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
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

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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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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