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Every place is the center of the world.

Black Elk

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Black Elk
Age: 86 †
Born: 1863
Born: December 1
Died: 1950
Died: August 19
Heyoka
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Tribal Chief
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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
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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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Know the Power that is Peace.
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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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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May you always walk in Beauty.
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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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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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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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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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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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After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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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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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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