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True Prayer Comes From Love

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May you be at peace. May your heart remain open.
May you awaken the light of your own true nature.
May you find your own true path.
May you be healed, and may you be a source of healing to all other beings.

To Allah ~ peace be upon him and his followers.

Oh Allah!
I consult You as You are all knowing,
and I seek ability from Your power and I ask You for Your great favour, for You have the power, and I do not, and You have knowledge, and I do not, and You know all hidden matters.

Oh Allah!
If you know that this matter is good for me in my religion, my livelihood and my life in the Hereafter, then make it easy and bless it: and if you know that this matter is evil for me in my religion, my livelihood and my life in the Hereafter, then keep it away from me, and keep me away from it, and choose what is good for me whatever it is, and make me pleased with it.

Tibetan Buddhist Phowa.

Through Your blessing, grace and guidance, from the power of the light that streams from You: may all my negative Karma, destructive emotions, obscurations and blockages be purified and removed.

May I know myself forgiven for all the harm I may have thought and done. May I accomplish this profound practice of phowa, and die a good and peaceful death. And through the triumph of my death, may I be able to benifit all other beings, living and dead.

Traditonal Wiccan Prayer

Answer us, O Ancient Horned One,
Provender and power are Thine.
Hear and answer, Gracious Goddess,
Grant us laughter, wit and wine,
Descend on us, O Thou of blessings,
Come among us, make us glad.
Since Thou art chief of our creation,
Why, O why should we be sad?
Beam on us, O joyous Bacchus,
Banish heavy-hearted hate.
Accept our craft, O Greatest Mother,
Let cheerful brightness be our fate.
So Mote It Be!

The Prayer of Socrates.

"Grant to me that I may be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure."

A Simple Christian Prayer ~ from St. Frances of Assisi

Lord, make me an instument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, let me sow pardon.
Where there is doubt, let me sow faith.
Where there is dispair, let me sow hope.
Where there is sadness, let me sow 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 the giving that we receive.
It is in the pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in the dying that we are born to eternal life.

An Ancient Egyptian Prayer.

O my mother Nut,
Stretch your wings over me.
Let me become like the imperishable stars,
Like the indefatagable stars.
May Nut extend her arms over me and her name of
"She who extends her arms"
chases away the shadows and makes the light shine everywhere.
O Great Being who is in the world of the Dead,
At whose feet is eternity,
In whose hand is the always,
Come to me.
O Great Divine beloved Soul,
who is in the mysterious abyss,
Come to me.

A Gaian Prayer

Peace.
Peace She says to me.
Peace to your soul.
I am the beauty in the leaf.
I am the echo in a baby's laugh.
I am your mother.
I am the joy in the heart that beats.
I am the free woman.
I am the one who breaks the shackles of oppression.
You are my hands and feet.

From the Carmina Gadelica ~ the Celtic Book of Prayer.

Thanks to Thee O God
That I have risen today
To the rising of this life itself.
May it be to Thine own glory,
O God of every gift,
And to the glory of my soul likewise.

Native American ~ Pawnee, Osage, Omaha song.

Remember, remember the sacredness of things
running streams and dwellings, the young within the nest
A hearth for sacred fire, the holy flame of the fire.

From the Bhagavad Gita

Indeed, You alone know Yourself by Your own potencies.
O origin of all,
Lord of all beings,
God of gods,
O Supreme Person,
Lord of the universe!

Aramaic version of the Lord's Prayer found in the Peshitta version of the Gospels.

O Breathing Life, Your name shines everywhere!
Release a space to plant Your Presence here.
Envision Your "I can" now.
Enbody Your desire in every light and form.
Grow through us this moments bread and wisdom.
Untie the knots of failure binding us.

As we release the strands we hold of others' faults.
Help us not forget our source.
Yet free us from not being in the Present.
From You arises every Vision, Power and Song
From gathering to gathering.
May Your future actions grow from here!
Amen.

Imagine ~ by John Lennon.

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try.
No hell below us
And above us only sky.
Imagine all the people living for today.

Imagine theres no countries,
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too.
Imaging all the people living for today.

Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man.
Imagine all the people sharing all the world.

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Taoist

If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.

Lao Tse

Shinto

Although the people living
across the ocean
surrounding us, I believe,
are all our brothers and sisters,
why are there constant troubles in this world?
Why do winds and waves rise in the
ocean surrounding us?
I only earnestly wish that the wind will
soon puff away all the clouds which are
hanging over the tops of the mountains.

Buddhist

May I become at all times, both now and forever
A protector for those without protection
A guide for those who have lost their way

A ship for those with oceans to cross
A bridge for those with rivers to cross
A sanctuary for those in danger
A lamp for those without light
A place of refuge for those who lack shelter
And a servant to all in need.

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind
quickly be freed from their illnesses.
May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free.
May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another.
May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness -
the children, the aged, the unprotected -
Be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.

Practice watering seeds of joy and peace and not just seeds of anger and violence,
and the elements of war in all of us will be transformed.

To prevent the next war, we have to practice peace today.
If we establish peace in our hearts and in our ways of looking at things,
war will not come. The only way to stop a war is to have real peace.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Tibetan

Om Tare Tuttare Ture Sarva Shantim Kuru Swaha.
Om and Salutations to She who is the source of all blessings,
Please bring peace to all.

Tara Mantra for Peace

Hindu

From untruth lead us to Truth.
From darkness lead us to Light.
From death lead us to Immortality.
Om Peace, Peace, Peace.

Lead me from the unreal to Real;
Lead me from darkness (ignorance) to Light (knowledge)
Lead me from death to Immortality.
Om Peace! Peace!! Peace!!

May all be auspicious;
May all attain peace;
Let there be fullness and contentment all over;
May all be blessed.
Aum peace, peace, peace.

May all the beings in all the worlds be happy.
May all the beings in all the worlds be happy.
May all the beings in all the worlds be happy.
Om Peace, Peace, Peace.

Let our aims be common, and your hearts be of one accord,
and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together.

Rig Veda X.191

I desire neither earthly kingdom, nor even freedom from birth and death.
I desire only the deliverance from grief of all those afflicted by misery.
Oh Lord, lead us from the unreal to the real
from darkness to light from death to immortality.
May there be peace in celestial regions.
May there be peace on earth.
May the waters be appeasing
May herbs be wholesome and may trees and plants bring peace to all.
May all beneficent beings bring peace to us.
May thy wisdom spread peace all through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to all and to me.
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.

May the Lord of day grant us peace.
May the Lord of night grant us peace.
May the Lord of sight grant us peace.
May the Lord of might grant us peace.
May the Lord of speech grant us peace.
May the Lord of space grant us peace.
I bow down to Brahman, source of all power.
I will speak the truth and follow the law.
Guard me and my teacher against all harm.
Guard me and my teacher against all harm.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.

May we be nourished by the Divine.
May we pursue these studies with vigour.
May we illumined by these studies.
May we not cavil due to different viewpoints.
Let peace reign in all the three worlds.
Peace, Peace, Blessings and Peace.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's important.
You have to do the right thing...
You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

M. K. Gandhi

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 be appeasing.
May herbs be wholesome, and may trees and plants bring peace to all.
May all beneficent beings bring peace to us.
May thy Vedic Law propagate peace all through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to us.
And may thy peace itself, bestow peace on all,
and may that peace come to me also.

Sikh

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.

Jain

Peace and Universal Love is the essence
of the Gospel preached by all the
Enlightened Ones.
The Lord has preached that equanimity
is the Dharma.
Forgive do I creatures all,
and let all creatures forgive me.
Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity.
Know that violence is the root cause of
all miseries in the world.
Violence, in fact, is the knot of bondage.
Do not injure any living being."
This is the eternal, perennial, and unalterable
way of spiritual life.
A weapon howsoever powerful it may be,
can always be superseded by a superior one;
but no weapon can, however,
be superior to non-violence and love.

Jewish Prayer

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper that love thee.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say:
'Peace be within thee.'
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.

Psalm 121

Come let us go up the mountain of
the Lord, that we may walk the
paths of the Most High.
And we shall beat our swords into ploughshares,
and our spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation--
neither shall they learn war any more.
And none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the
Lord of Hosts has spoken.

Shabbat Meditation

Let the day come when we turn to the Lord of peace,
when all are a single family doing His will with a perfect heart.
O source of peace, lead us to peace, a peace profound and true;
lead us to a healing, to mastery of all that drives us to war within ourselves
and with others.
Lord of peace, bless us with peace.

Rabbi Herman Schaalman

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