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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.

Black Elk

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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Earth Red Sticks
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Anything Country Horse Native Summer Years
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
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Circles Community Together
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
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Circles Country Native Shapes
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Country Native Sacred World
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
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
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
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
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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Childhood Everything Life Moves Person
I cured with the power that came through me.
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Advertising Agencies Country Dream Native Power
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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Birds Nests Religion Same
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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Children Country Heart Native
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
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.
BLACK ELK

Dead Lying Men Standing Uncle

It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.

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