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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

Black Elk

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
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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might People Vision
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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Inspirational Life Peace
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
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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Dead Except Lying People Saws
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
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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Deeply Great Intends Love Spirit
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
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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Fog Glowing Meaning Talk Thinking Words
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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Country Native Stars Wind

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

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