Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
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Now and then the voices would come back when I was out alone, like someone calling me, but what they wanted me to do I did not know.Black Elk
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
Black Elk
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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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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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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