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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Dream Wake Up Waking
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Circles Country Native People
Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
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Circle Community Earth Live Together
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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Country Honesty Inspirational Native True
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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Inspirational Life Peace
The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Ceremonies Everything Foolish Legend Power
A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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Given Make Nations Over Said
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
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Earth Order Power Vision
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Close Doing Everything Foolish
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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Country Death Native Real Understanding
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
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
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Darkness Eye Men
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native

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