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The power of the world always works in circles.

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
Works
Power
Always
World
Lakota
Cherokee
Native
Circles
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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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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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When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.
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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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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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