It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
BLACK ELKIt 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 Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Everything tries to be round.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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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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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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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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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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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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