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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.

Black Elk

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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Cured Outer Power Two Vision World
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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Circles Country Native Strong
He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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Compared Everything Know Prepared World
Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important.
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Animal Great Heart Important Rivers Spirit
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
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Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way
A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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Given Make Nations Over Said
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Behold Inspirational Life
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
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Children Daylight Flowering Hoops Shelter
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
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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Circles Country Inspirational Native
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native
They 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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Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle
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
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe

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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