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When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

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
Pipe
Pray
Praying
Everything

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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 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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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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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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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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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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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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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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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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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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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Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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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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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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The power of the world always works in circles.
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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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