Prayer to honor the Gulf

This prayer is a lovely (and powerful) example of the Hawaiian healing practice known as Ho'oponopono.

Much love, and I hope we can all join hearts and love in praying for the ocean animals, plants, waters, .....

(Thank you so much Nina)
Love, Lalita

Subject: Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the Gulf

I'm participating in Earth Healings for our Oceans. Dr. Masaru Emoto, who
many of you will recognize as the scientist from Japan, has done all the
research and publications about the characteristics of water. Among other
things, his research reveals that water physically responds to emotions.
Right now, most of us have the predominantly angry emotion when we consider
what is happening in the Gulf. And while certainly we are justified in that
emotion, we may be of greater assistance to our planet and its life forms if
we sincerely, powerfully and humbly pray the prayer that Dr Emoto, himself,
has proposed:

I am passing this request to people who I believe might be willing to
participate in this prayer, to set an intention of love and healing that is
so large, so overwhelming that we can perform a miracle in the Gulf of
Mexico.
We are not powerless. We are powerful. Our united energy, speaking this
prayer daily...multiple times daily....can literally shift the balance of
destruction that is happening.
We don't have to know how......we just have to recognize that the power of
love is greater than any power active in the Universe today.

Please join me in repeating this healing prayer from Dr. Emoto. Feel free
to copy and paste this to send it around the planet. Let's take charge and
do our own clean up!
And so it is! Pass it on.

"I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings. To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae, and all living creatures . . . I am sorry. Please forgive us. Thank you. I love you."

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from "Song of Reality" a prayer of the Seicho-No-Ie holy sutras

God is Life, Perfect, Whole, and immaculate.
I'm a child of God, His spirit within me.
I let live and give  life, strength, and hope to all,
As all things give me life and uplift me.

God is Love, perfect, pure, and all-embracing.
I'm a child of God, His spirit within me.
I love all through and through, seeking to return.
All things also love me and nourish me.

God is Wisdom, unerring and knowing all.
I'm a child of God, His spirit within me.
When in Oneness I pray, Heaven and Earth respond.
When in Oneness I move, the Universe moves.

God is all of everything, everywhere.
I'm a child of God, His spirit within me.
When in Oneness I pray, Heaven and Earth respond.
When in Oneness I move, the Universe moves.

I exist in this wondrous world of Truth.
I am a child of God, child of light, the Almighty.
Perfect peace and grand harmony shall reign.
Radiant world of omnipresent light!

-Seicho-no-Ie prayer

Mary Oliver, "Morning at Blackwater"

"Morning at Blackwater"

It's almost dawn
and the usual half-miracles begin
within my own personal body as the light
enters the gates of the east and climbs
into the fields of the sky, and the birds lift
their very unimportant heads from the branches
and begin to sing; and the insects too,
and the rustling leaves, and even
that most common of earthly things, the grass,
can't let it begin - another morning - without
making some comment of gladness, respiring softly
with the honey of their green bodies; and the white
blossoms of the swamp honeysuckle, hovering just where
the path and the pond almost meet,
shake from the folds of their bodies
such happiness it enters the air of fragrance,
the day's first pale and elegant affirmation.
And the old gods liked so well, they say,
the sweet odor of prayer.


~Mary Oliver, from Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

Rabindranath Tagore

Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, First fill your own house with the fragrance of Love.
Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, First remove the darkness of sin from your heart.
Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, First learn to bow in humility before your fellow men,
Go not to the temple to pray on bended kness , First bend down to lift someone who is downtrodden.
Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

----Rabindranath Tagore, The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

~Thomas Merton, The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton

“Reveal then Thyself, O Lord, by Thy merciful utterance and the mystery of Thy divine being, that the holy ecstasy of prayer may fill our souls - a prayer that shall rise above words and letters and transcend the murmur of syllables and sounds—that all things may be merged into nothingness before the revelation of Thy splendor.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Illumine My Heart: Baha'i Prayers for Every Occasion
p. 70

Praying is a way of being with someone I know loves me. — Saint Teresa of Avila

True prayer and love are really
learned in the hour when prayer
becomes impossible and your
heart turns to stone.

— Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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09.18.08 - Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit

We beseech You, O Lord, mercifully pour into our Society, Thy Holy Spirit, by whose Wisdom it was created, by whose Providence it is governed and maintained, and whose love may enkindle in the Society that same fire which Our Lord, Jesus Christ sent down upon earth earnestly desiring that it should burn mightily.

And so,

Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit,
That my thoughts may all be holy.

Act in me, O Holy Spirit,
That my work too may be holy.

Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit,
That I love but what is holy.

Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit,
To defend all that is holy.

Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit,
That I always may be holy.
-Mother Teresa