As I resume my waking-walking journey each day, I like to remind myself of these guidelines: Do not rush. Be present wherever you are, whatever you’re doing. Do not compare yourself with anyone else. Spend time with the child within you that Innocence out of which you have incarnated. Trust, wholeheartedly and uncompromisingly […]
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Settle your thoughts Come into the place where there are no questions and no answers Where there is nothing to be understood Where the vision is scintillatingly clear And the hearing unerring Where there is neither rush nor torpor Where wakefulness strides with majesty and grace Come into the place that has neither name nor
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When you are standing in your conditioned/ego mind, you have only its conditioned/learned understandings, assumptions and permissions to draw on. Your responses can therefore never be fresh, original or unscripted. But when you leave the city of your conditioned/ego mind and take even one small step ‘beyond the ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing’ (Rumi) and
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I catch myself in the middle of doing the dishes or washing my hands or doing the laundry or vacuuming the floor and realize that I am hurrying. It’s driven by a sense that I need to be doing something else, that I want to be doing something else that is better or more important
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Beannacht On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue come to awaken in you
Prayer for World Peace We pray to the great Spiritual Power in which we live and move and have our being. We pray that we may at all times keep our minds open to new ideas and shun dogma; that we may grow in our understanding of the nature of all living beings and our
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A Prayer for the World Let the rain come and wash away the ancient grudges, the bitter hatreds held and nurtured over generations. Let the rain wash away the memory of the hurt, the neglect. Then let the sun come out and fill the sky with rainbows. Let the warmth of the sun heal us
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Tibetan Buddhist Prayer May you be at peace, May your heart remain open. May you awaken to the light of your own true nature. May you be healed, May you be a source of healing for all beings. From Souled Out
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Muslim Prayer for Peace In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful. Praise be to the Lord of the Universe who has created us and made us into tribes and nations, that we may know each other, not that we may despise each other. If the enemy incline towards peace, do thou also incline
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Hindu Prayers for Peace Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real. Oh God, lead us from darkness to light. Oh God, lead us from death to immortality. Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all. Oh Lord God almighty, may there be peace in celestial regions. May there be peace on earth. May the waters
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