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 at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
Black Elk
Hear me, four quarters of the world a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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Continuous effortnot strength or intelligenceis the key to unlocking our potential.
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He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.
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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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Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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The world always works in circles and everything tries to be round
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'Behold!' she said,.. 'With this you shall multiply and be a good nation'.. She sang again.. And as the people watched her going suddenly it was a white bison galloping away and snorting, and soon it was gone.
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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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Then she gave something to the chief, and it was a pipe with a bison calf carved on one side to mean the earth that bears and feeds us, and with twelve eagle feathers hanging from the stem to mean the sky and the twelve moons, and these were tied with a grass that never breaks
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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.
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The Holy Land is everywhere
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream..
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It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
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And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
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