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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

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
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
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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Color Flames Rainbow
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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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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Earth Feeble Grandfather Voice
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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Country Men Native People Thinking
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
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky

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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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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