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Living Moments of Grace? Life Prayers Amidon, Roberts

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“… EACH of us is blessed with moments of grace, moments when our soul becomes clear and quiet …” ~ William Stafford

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How To Remember We Are One: Unity Prayers for a Thousand Years

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“… We rise from one ocean …” ~ Anwar Fazal

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Listen: An Invitation To Peace & Unity … via Prayers

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“… May we listen to God in quietness and awe …” ~ Jay McDaniel

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Refuge Prayer: Compassion & Kindness – Thay

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“… the living source of understanding and compassion, to the Buddha I go for refuge …” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Peace Offering – Thich Nhat Hanh & Black Elk

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“… From oneness We derive peace. From peace We derive oneness …” ~ Sri Chinmoy

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Another Prayer … for Peace – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“… With your deep understanding, help our hearts grow light … May the merit of this prayer be transformed into peace …” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Peace Prayer … & Mother Water by Amidon

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“… Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness …” ~ Baha’i peace prayer

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Thanksgiving: Gratitude Quiet & Peace …

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“… I walk in thanksgiving … for the splendor of autumn and the rocky peaks …” ~ Marianites of Holy Angels

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The Nine Prayers – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“… This kind of prayer is also contemplation, meditation, and practice. It generates spirituality in every moment of our daily life …” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Peaceful Living: Prayers for Peace

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“… let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings … realize that they are all brothers and sisters, all nourished from the same source of life …” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Spiritual Practice: Harmony with The Sacred – Ellerby

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“… To embrace a spiritual practice is to make the journey into mystery and knowing …” ~ Jonathan Ellerby

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Earth Blessings …

“… Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as the sunshine into the trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. …” ~ John Muir

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Equanimity, Love, & Walking In Beauty

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“… I vow to practice mindful breathing and smiling … to cultivate compassion and loving kindness, and to practice joy and equanimity …” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Peace: A Deepening Through Prayers

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“… There is no true peace possible for the man who still imagines that some accident of talent or grace or virtue segregates him from other men and places him above them …” ~ Thomas Merton

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Return Thanks … & Earth, Teach Me …

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“… We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. …” ~ Iroquois Thanksgiving

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Munajat: Pretend That You & I are Two : Elias Amidon

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“… Now that the dawn has come so gently … my quiet soul … warms its wings in the morning light … ” ~ Pir Elias Amidon

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Prayer – A Mind Centered Practice: Ellerby

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“… Honoring the ever-present Divine through regular prayer is a way of living close to the edge of spiritual experience while cultivating the strength of our spiritual senses …” ~ Jonathan Ellerby

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Munajat: The Nest of Your Nearness, by Pir Elias Amidon

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“… praying in this manner … points to the unspeakable majesty of the Real … It’s a form of prayer that endears at the same time that it is in awe … ” ~ Pir Elias Amidon

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Ellerby: Understanding Spirituality … & Life

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“… Life awakens in the pale and flowing Blue light of dawn …” ~ Jonathan Ellerby

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Thomas Merton: Prayer, Silence & Solitude

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“In true prayer, although every silent moment remains the same, every moment is a new discovery of a new silence, a new penetration into that eternity in which all things are always new …” ~ Thomas Merton Continue reading to appreciate this prayer  …

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Munajat: Your Help, by Pir Elias Amidon

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You are the becoming and the here, the flowing and the still. ~ Pir Elias Amidon Your Help is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari.

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Loving Kindness Meditation

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“… May all people awaken to the light of their own true nature …” Happy New Year !

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Munajat: Your Home, by Pir Elias Amidon

You are very quiet, but you leave this trace in my heart.   ~ Pir Elias Amidon Your Home is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari.

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Sanctuary by Elias Amidon

Our future is, and always has been, something given by the whole universe.  ~ Elias Amidon Sufi teacher and writer Elias Amidon explores impermanence and presence within our notion of Sanctuary. These “two” qualities of our sanctuary — impermanence and presence — are not in actuality two. How this i …

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Munajat: Benediction, by Pir Elias Amidon

I don’t know where your light comes from or where I end and you begin. ~ Pir Elias Amidon Benediction is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdul …

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Munajat: Your Beautiful Composure, by Pir Elias Amidon

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Inside the noise my life makes you live in silence. ~ Pir Elias Amidon Your Beautiful Composure is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah An …

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Munajat: Sama by Pir Elias Amidon

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Munajat: “… a “whispered prayer” … is On its way to endlessness it has no need for hurry.  ~ Pir Elias Amidon Munajat is a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon. These prayers “… were originally inspired by the Munajat — “whispered prayers.” Enjoy Sama, another of Elias’ intimate conversa …

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Ellerby: Remembering Our Sacred Source

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“… All things are made holy in their union with the Sacred …” ~ Jonathan Ellerby In this post Jonathan reminds us that “… The immeasurable essence of our Sacred Source lives within everyone and connects us to our eternal origin and the fabric of being …” Enjoy!

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Munajat: The Quiet by Pir Elias Amidon

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Munajat: “… a “whispered prayer” … is love-talk evoking the nearness of divine reality … ~ Pir Elias Amidon Enjoy another of Elias’ intimate conversations with God! …

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Pir Elias Amidon: Munajat – Forty Prayers: In The Cathedral

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“On the one hand {a “whispered prayer,” or “intimate conversation with God” is a} … love-talk evoking the nearness of divine reality, and on the other hand it can’t help but go mute as it points to the unspeakable majesty of the Real …” ~ Elias Amidon Enjoy one of Elias’ intimate conversation wi …

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Prayer For Peace

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“The first peace … comes within the souls of people when they realize … their oneness, with the universe … and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka (“The Great Mystery”), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” ~ Black Elk Adorabl …

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{Gratitude} Prayer For The Great Family

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Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day– and to her soil: rich, rare, and sweet in our minds so be it. …. Continue reading to enjoy Gary Snyder’s full poem

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Prayer of Compassion

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This Prayer is performed each morning by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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