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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

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
BLACK ELK

Earth Prayer Sacred
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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Beautiful Save Sooner Thinking Wise
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
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Country Dirty Legend Lying Seldom
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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Inspirational Life Peace
But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
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Around Islands Legegd Little Smaler
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
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Country Heart Mind Native Voice
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together
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 power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
BLACK ELK

Country Meaning Native Power Understanding
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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Fog Glowing Meaning Talk Thinking Words
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
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
The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Ceremonies Everything Foolish Legend Power
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
BLACK ELK

Color Flames Rainbow
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
BLACK ELK

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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