The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

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.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

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.

When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.