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Behold this day. It is yours to make.

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Black Elk
Age: 86 †
Born: 1863
Born: December 1
Died: 1950
Died: August 19
Heyoka
Medicine Man
Tribal Chief
Behold
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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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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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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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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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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything then he knows that world which is real.
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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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The power of the world always works in circles.
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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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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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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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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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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
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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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