O Great Spirit of our

Ancestors, I raise

my pipe to you.

To your messengers the four winds, and

to Mother Earth who provides

for your children.

Give us the wisdom to teach our children

to love, to respect, and to be kind to each

other so that they may grow

with peace in mind.

Let us learn to share all good things that

you provide for us on this Earth.

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Graywolf,

Thank you for your beautiful Prayer!  If you do not mind, I would like to Pray your Prayer.

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Of course I do not mind that is why I am posting some here so that others can use. I am glad you like it.

                     Graywolf

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God adjudges us according

to our deeds,

not the coat that we wear:

that truth is above everything,

but higher still is truthful living.

Know that we attaineth God when we loveth,

and only that victory

endures in consequences of which no

one is defeated.

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To all our relations:

"Above all, the powerful weapons that are in your hands will doom the earth into becoming a likeness of the moon. Remember that We too have weapons of a kind that no man on earth can tame."

The Hopi Elders

Let us Pray in this Important time in History

"Great Sprit and all unseen, this day we pray and ask you for guidance, humbly we ask you to help us and fellow men to have recourse to peaceful ways of life, because we ask You to help us and fellow men to have recourse to peaceful ways of life, because of uncontrolled deceitfulness by humankind. Help us all to love, not hate one another.

We ask you to be seen in an image of Love and Peace. Let us be seen in beauty, the colors of the rainbows.

We respect our Mother, the planet & our corn fields, with our loving care, from Her breast we receive our nourishment.

Let us not listen to the voices of the two-hearted, the destroyers of mind, the haters of self-made leaders, whose lusts for power and wealth will lead us into confusion and darkness. Seek visions always of world beauty, not violence not battlefields.

It is our duty to pray always for harmony between man and earth, so that the earth will bloom once more. Let us show our emblem of love and goodwill for all life and land.

Pray for the House of Glass, (United Nations) Pray for within it are minds clear and pure as ice and mountain streams.

Pray for the great leaders of nations in the House of Mica who in their own quiet ways help the earth in balance.

We pray the Great Sprit that one day our Mother Earth will be purified into a healthy peaceful one.

Let us Sing for strength of wisdom with all nations for the good of all people. Our hope is not yet lost, purification must be to restore the health of our Mother Earth for lasting peace and happiness, Techqua Ikachi ---- for Land and Life!

"Together with all Nations we Hold this World in Balance"

The Hopi Elders,
Hotevilla USA

This was posted on one of my other non-care2 groups!

Peace, love, and beauty

Ross                   

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I have just joined this discussion group and would like to share with you the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (the lover of peace and animals):

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

I hope you find this prayer an inspiration. Peace be with you all.

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I pray for my family

I pray for my Friends

I pray for my Foes

I pray for all the people I don't know

Did i forget anyone?

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What beautiful prayers, with beautiful words from beautiful hearts.

Thank you for sharing love and peace.

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The Metta Sutta-- The Buddhas discourse on peace and loving kindness to all beings

This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness,

And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright,

Straightforward and gentle in speech. Humble and not conceited,

Contented and easily satisfied Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.

Peaceful and calm, and wise and skilful, Not proud and demanding in nature.

Let them not do the slightest thing That the wise would later reprove.

Wishing: in gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease.

Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,

The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen,

Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born --

May all beings be at ease! Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any way

Let none through anger or ill-will Wish harm upon another.

Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child,

So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings;

Radiating kindness over the entire world: Spreading upwards to the skies,

And downwards to the depths; Outwards and unbounded,

Freed from hatred and ill-will. Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down,

Free from drowsiness, One should sustain this recollection.

This is said to be the sublime abiding. By not holding to fixed views,

The true-hearted one, having clarity of vision, Being freed from all sense desires,

Is not born again into this world "

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Peace to all...

I too am new here, and wish to share an ancient Sanskrit prayer that all members of the drug and alcohol treatment center where I used to work at would recite together, holding hands, before the start of every new day:

Look to this day for it is life

The very life of life

In it's brief course lie all the verities and realities of existence;

The bliss of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of divine power

For yesterday is but a dream

And tomorrow is only a vision

But TODAY...well lived

Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness

And every tomorrow a vision of hope

Look well, therefore, to THIS day!!!

Namaste,

Ed

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"We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

Maíread Maguire

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Wish for others what you wish for yourself

this is the key to harmonious human relations.

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"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another."

- Robert F. Kennedy, April 1968

Blissed be, Ani 

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Thank you for sharing your prayers!!

They are beautiful....

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