The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
BLACK ELKThe power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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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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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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Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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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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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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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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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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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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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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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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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