All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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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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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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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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I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Everything tries to be round.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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