"Thank you Creator of the Universe
, for the gift of life you have given me. Thank you for giving me everything that I have ever truly needed. Thank you for the opportunity to experience this beautiful body and this wonderful mind. Thank you for living inside me with all your love, with you pure and boundless spirit, with your warm and radiant light.
Thank you for using my words, for using my eyes, for using my heart to share your love wherever I go. I love you just the way you are, and because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am. Help me to keep the love and the peace in my heart and to make that love a new way of life, that I may live in love the rest of my life."
-don Miguel Ruiz, master of the Toltec mystery school.
O friend
, understand: the body
is like the ocean
rich with hidden treasures.
Open your inmost chamber and light its lamp
Within the body are gardens,
rare flowers, peacocks, the inner Music;
within the body a lake of bliss,
on it the white soul-swans take their joy.
And in the body, a vast market-
go there, trade,
sell yourself for a profit you can't spend.
Mira says, her Lord is beyond praising.
Allow her to dwell near Your feet.
- Mirabai
Khatum
O thou
, who art the perfection of love, harmony, and beauty,
The lord of heaven and earth, open our hearts, that we my hear
Thy voice, which constantly comes from within.
Disclose to us thy divine light, which is hidden in our souls, that
we may know and understand life better.
Most merciful and compassionate god, give us thy great goodness;
Teach us they loving forgiveness;
Raise us above the distinctions and differences which divide us.
Send us the peace of thy divine spirit,
And unite us all in they perfect being.
-Sufi prayer
We call upon the earth
, our planet home, with its beautiful depths and soaring heights, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the mountains, the Cascades and the Olympics, he high green valleys and meadows filled with wild flowers, the snows that never melt, the summits of intense silence, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields and e ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the land which grows our food, the nurturing soil, the fertile fields, the abundant gardens and orchards, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the forests, the great trees reaching strongly to the sky with earth in their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir and the pine and the cedar, and we ask them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the seas, our brothers and sisters the wolves and deer, the eagle and dove, the great whales and the dolphin, the beautiful Orca and salmon who share our Northwest home, and we ask them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives our lives are built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the presence and power of the Great Spirit of love and truth which flows through all the Universe, to be with us to
Teach us and show us the way.
-Chinook Blessing Litany.
The Great Hymn to Atenby Pharaoh Akhenaten, circa 1350 BC
Let your holy Light shine
from the height of heaven O living Aten, source of all life! From Eastern horizon risen and streaming, you have flooded the world with your beauty.
The herds are at peace in their pastures, trees and the vegetation grow green; Birds start from their nests, wings wide spread to worship your Person.
When the new one descends from the womb to draw breath the day of his birth, You open his mouth, you shape his nature, and you supply all his necessities.
How various is the world you have created, each thing mysterious, sacred to sight O sole God, beside whom is no other!
You fashioned earth to your heart's desire, while you were still alone, Filled it with man and the family of creatures, each kind on the ground, those who go upon feet, he on high soaring on wings, The far lands of Khor and Kush, and the rich black land of Egypt.
You are the one God, shining forth from you possible incarnations as Aten, the Living Sun, Revealed like a king in glory, risen in light, now distant, now bending nearby. You create the numberless things of this world from yourself, who are One alone-- cities, towns fields, the roadway, the River; And each eye looks back and beholds you to learn from the day's light perfection.
Lift up the creatures of earth for your Son who came forth from your Body of Fire!
May all beings be happy
and at their ease! May they be joyous and live in safety!
All beings, whether weak or strong--omitting none-in high, middle, or low realms of existence, small or great, visible or invisible, near or far away, born or to be born--may all beings be happy and at their ease!
Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any state!
Let none by anger or ill will wish harm to another!
Even as a mother watches over and protects her child, her only child, so with a boundless mind should one cherish all living beings, radiating friendliness over the entire world, above, below, and all around without limit. So let everyone cultivate a boundless good will toward the entire world, uncramped, free from ill will or enmity.
-Majjhima Nikaya, From The Essential Mystics
However innumerable
sentient beings are, I vow to save them.
However inexhaustible the defilements are, I vow to extinguish them.
However immeasurable the dharmas are, I vow to master them.
However incomparable enlightenment is, I vow to attain it.
-Bodhisattva vows
Thank you for using my words, for using my eyes, for using my heart to share your love wherever I go. I love you just the way you are, and because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am. Help me to keep the love and the peace in my heart and to make that love a new way of life, that I may live in love the rest of my life."
-don Miguel Ruiz, master of the Toltec mystery school.
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