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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.

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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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Clouds Mountain Whisper White
I cured with the power that came through me.
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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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Everything tries to be round.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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Circles Country Native Strong
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.
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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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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
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.

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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.

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