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.
BLACK ELKI cured with the power that came through me.
More Black Elk Quotes
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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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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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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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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Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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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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It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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