Everything tries to be round.
BLACK ELKWhen 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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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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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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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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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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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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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 center of the universe is everywhere.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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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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Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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