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06-10-2008, 03:44 AM
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| Sharing Our Light  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| Prayer for Freedom From Suffering 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. - The Buddha Buddhist 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~  |
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06-11-2008, 02:50 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| The Invitation By Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting in your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit in pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own,if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tip of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from the Spirit's presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!" It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children. It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-12-2008, 03:14 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| Prayer for Guidance The spirits of the mountain exist in strength. Their roots are deep in the Earth, their heads pierce the air and mount to the sky above. They dance from flat to peak and, spiraling, descend again. Good Ones, when I come under your trees and upon your stones, guide me. - Ceisiwr Serith 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-12-2008, 03:53 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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Me too, but today I have a better compass and don't worry about the map.
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-13-2008, 04:00 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| Guide Us to Our Truest Selves Boundless Sea of Love and Energy, our God, may all your dreams for us come true: your motherly imaginings, and your fatherly hopes, your creative purposes everywhere in nature. Guide us to our truest selves, co-creators of this environment. Make us worthy inheritors of the astonishing evolutionary reality in which we live. May it be so. - William Cleary 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-14-2008, 04:45 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| With Every Breath With every breath I take today, I vow to be awake; And every step I take, I vow to take with a grateful heart-- So I may see with eyes of love into the hearts of all I meet, To ease their burden when I can And touch them with a smile of peace. Buddhist 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-14-2008, 10:04 AM
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I will remain awake - aware--and grateful for the present moment...and grateful for the opportunity to give the gift of a smile to others I might even go to the mirror and smile at me I know with certainty that I will give God the gift of a smile thru out the day.
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06-15-2008, 05:27 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| Great Wings by Hanoochi I fly high above the mountains riding on the swift air currents, gently gliding without a ripple on the lake of the sky. The warmth of the sun penetrates my powerful body and warms my beating heart as the cool and refreshing air rushes at every motion of my wings. Higher and higher I fly, the light misty clouds surround me, enveloping my very being, guided only by the thermals of the heart. Higher and higher I fly, what is behind me is now gone, but the clarity of what is above and below me pierces my soul with vibrance. I ascend to the stars on the great wings of love. 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-16-2008, 03:05 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| Dear Lord, For all the times in our lives when things DO seem right, when we have that moment of clarity when we feel there is hope, when the sun shines down upon us and warms our face and reminds us that life IS a gift... we thank you Lord. Amen 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-17-2008, 03:21 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| Prayer for Calm and Comfort With your soothing fingers, wipe away the lines that worries have etched on our faces. Surround us with calm, let us rest in the glow of peace, as if we were encircled with the Moon's own light. Let our concerns and tensions drain away from us, pouring as water into your Earth. - Ceisiwr Serith source: "A Book of Pagan Prayer" © 2002 Ceisiwr Serith 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-18-2008, 03:35 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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| Wae Wae Non Ne Mot Menominee Tribe (part of The Menominee Version of the 23rd Psalm) "The Creator above is the Great Spirit and the Great Mystery, His gifts are plentiful therefore you want not. He holds out a branch of love and protection and He draws you to where the ground is undisturbed, where the air is pure and the water is clear and clean enough to give life. You walk, you breathe, you feed, for you are pleasured. The times when your heart is weak, your circle is out of balance, He lifts you up again and draws you to the good Menominee road, for He is strength and wisdom." 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-18-2008, 03:55 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
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Walking together, Pattee, indeed the pleasure is mine. 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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06-19-2008, 02:58 AM
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| Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake
Posts: 15,130
| Guide Us to Our Truest Selves Boundless Sea of Love and Energy, our God, may all your dreams for us come true: your motherly imaginings, and your fatherly hopes, your creative purposes everywhere in nature. Guide us to our truest selves, co-creators of this environment. Make us worthy inheritors of the astonishing evolutionary reality in which we live. May it be so. - William Cleary 
__________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ |
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