Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
BLACK ELKWhen 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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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 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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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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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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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
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The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.
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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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But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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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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