Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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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Everything tries to be round.
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The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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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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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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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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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 Holy Land is everywhere.
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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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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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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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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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I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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