The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
BLACK ELKThey told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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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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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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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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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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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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