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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
Universe
Center
Everywhere

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The power of the world always works in 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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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
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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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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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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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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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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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Every place is the center of the world.
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May you always walk in Beauty.
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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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When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.
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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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And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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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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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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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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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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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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