Permanent Prayer for Peace – Page 34 – Permanent Prayer 4 Peace

22nd September 2011

[simage=374,max,n,center,] You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. Marianne Williamson

21st September 2011 – International Peace Day

[simage=373,max,n,center,] World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. Dalai Lama

20th September

[simage=372,max,n,center,] All creatures are the same life, the same essence, the same power, the same one and nothing less. Henry Suso

19th September

[simage=371,max,n,center,] If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust

18th September

[simage=370,max,n,center,] Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. Thich Nhat Hanh

17th September

[simage=369,max,n,center,] How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

16th September

[simage=368,max,n,center,] If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. That’s the true practice of peace. PemaContinue reading “16th September”

15th September

[simage=367,max,n,center,] We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellows; and among those fibres, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville

14th September

[simage=366,max,n,center,] Peace is not God’s gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other. Elie Wiesel

13th September

[simage=365,max,n,center,] Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. This isn’t theory; it’s an unalterable fact, a law of the universe. So don’t worry if you can’t see the result of your forgiveness just yet; know that any mental breakthrough from fear to love generates a cosmic engine of miraculous breakthrough as sure as the sun’sContinue reading “13th September”