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The Holy Land is everywhere.

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
Life
Everywhere
Holy
Land
Inspirational

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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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The power of the world always works in circles.
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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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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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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Every place is the center of the world.
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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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When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.
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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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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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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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