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May you always walk in Beauty.
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
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The power of the world always works in circles.
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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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Every place is the center of the world.
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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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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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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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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
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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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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
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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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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. 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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The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
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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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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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