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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
Native
Circles
Indian
Works
Power
Always
World
Lakota
Cherokee

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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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All things are our relatives what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
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