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Black Lives Matter: A Prayer
Inspired by Yehudah Amichai z”l and Rabbi Rachel Barenblat. In memory of Mike Brown Eric Garner, and many, many others recited as part of a Pilgrimage of Lament. Author(s): Menachem Creditor Berkeley, CA 12/14/14 We stand before you because we must. We stand before You because truths that should be self-evident are not so evident…
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Do not call to mind the former things…
“Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will ever make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the Desert…” ~Isaiah 43:18-19
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Angels watching over us
“For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.” ~Psalm 91:11
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Prayer for true love
May divine grace be your companion as you hold the vision in stillness And find the faith that true love is real; May the path be clear for you to act in wisdom Know courage in devotion, And find laughter along the way. May you be enriched by the wonder and majesty of love. Love…
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NATIVE VISION: Ode to the Spirit and Native Soul by Walter Alfredo Martinez (1948-2006)
Ode to the Spirit and Native Soul by Walter Alfredo Martinez (1948-2006) Dearest one . . .So you have disappearedSo you have gone and left meHere on usurped holy landsAnd desecrated burial groundsYou have gone and left me dearLike the wisp of blue smokeLost in the firmamentYou have gone and left me dearGraced by your…
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Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone…
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Declaration*
We the Indigenous Peoples of the world, united in the corner of our Mother the Earth in a great assembly of men of wisdom, declare to all nations: We glory in our proud past: when the earth was our nurturing mother, when the night sky formed our common roof, when Sun and Moon were our…
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Buddha Quotes
“If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe.” “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” “There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ” “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” “In separateness lies the world’s…
The Sacred & The Profane 