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Know the Power that is Peace.

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
Peace
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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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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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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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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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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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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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