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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

Black Elk

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Black Elk
Age: 86 †
Born: 1863
Born: December 1
Died: 1950
Died: August 19
Heyoka
Medicine Man
Tribal Chief
World
Consumed
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Passions
Ignorance
Passion
Lives
Things
Men
Snakes

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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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After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
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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.
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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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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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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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The power of the world always works in circles.
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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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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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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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All things are our relatives what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
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May you always walk in Beauty.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
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