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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
Medicine Man
Tribal Chief
Center
Unity
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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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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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The power of the world always works in circles.
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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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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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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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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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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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It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything then he knows that world which is real.
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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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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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