As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
BLACK ELKThe power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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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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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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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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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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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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The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal.
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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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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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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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