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But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

Black Elk

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Black Elk
Age: 86 †
Born: 1863
Born: December 1
Died: 1950
Died: August 19
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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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Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, 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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Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.
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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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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
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All things are our relatives what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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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You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
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One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
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It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
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May you always walk in Beauty.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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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. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
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