"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 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 and Your pure and boundless Spirit,
with Your warm and radiating 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."
Is there a prayer that frees from one from the identity of the prayer in need of praying?
Each of us inevitable,
Each of us limitless --
Each of us with his or her
right upon the earth,
Each of us allow'd
the eternal purports
of the earth,
Each of us here
as divinely as any is here.
~ Walt Whitman ~
(Leaves of Grass)
The woman today is faced with a tremendous cultural task -- perhaps it will be the dawn of a new era."
- C.G Jung
Santarei,
Brian,I never grok why the paradise goal is placed off-planet.
I do not see that these mindful technologies will reduce the impact on earth of humans careening toward 9-11 billion people or technologies requiring an enormous energy draw, both of which function to reduce habitat for other-than-human earthlings.
Why does Idealism privilege individual awareness when mutualism seems more functional for survival in evolution?
And isn't prayer related to the notion of manifesting the deity in one's own image? How big is your God? (sounds like sort of a guy thing doesn't it - mine is bigger than yours ;-)
AMAZING! This is precisely the kind of thinking that allowed humans to pollute an unseen elsewhere such as CO2 in the atmosphere and microplastics in the ocean. Earlier on this kind of "elsewhere" and "other" thinking allowed some nations to get rich by exploiting other places where people were not Christians, etc.
I'm in agreement that I'd like off Earth development to show proper respect for the natural world regardless of which planet & especially so if we encounter an alien biosphere. IMO, even waste disposal outside of an atmosphere should have protocols designed to protect from the waste ending up somewhere it shouldn't .
A prayer of olox
A prayer of olox