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The center of the universe 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
Center
Everywhere
Universe

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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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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 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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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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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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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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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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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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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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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Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.
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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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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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The power of the world always works in circles.
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