The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
BLACK ELKFor instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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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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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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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 as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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Everything tries to be round.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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