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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.

Black Elk

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Steps
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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Good Memory People Some Vision
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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Color Flames Rainbow
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
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Country Darkness Eye Men Native
The center of the universe is everywhere.
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Center Everywhere Universe
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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Different Garden Men Prayer Spirit Way
We should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples.
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Great People Spirit Things Understand
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Inspirational Life Sky
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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Cured Outer Power Two Vision World
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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Dead Except Lying People Saws
Know the Power that is Peace.
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Inspirational Life Peace Power
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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Circles Country Inspirational Native
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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men

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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