-=-namaste-=-

friday, september 14

Mat tells me that there is a prayer service at Grace Cathedral today at noon. I'm sure that there are many at various places or worship today too.
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Now is a time when everything that i feel seems to be sadness, heaviness, fear, anxiety. It is a heavy time. It is ok to mope, I keep telling myself. Thousands of souls have left their bodies all at the same time. Our way of life is forever changed. It is right to mourn. Our collective consciousness as a country, as a world aches.

"Let your soul lend its ear to every cry of pain
as a lotus bares its heart to drink the morning sun.
Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before
you yourself have wiped it from the sufferer's eye.
But let each burning human tear fall on your heart
and there remain, nor ever brush it off
until the pain that caused it is removed."

--traditional Vedic meditation
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thursday, september 13

When cataclysm strikes, the spirit is tested.
The Earth has turned over in its sleep.
People have been crushed, killed, wounded.
Let us pray for the survivors,
that their lives may be rebuilt.

When cataclysm strikes, the spirit is tested,
wakes from its dream of immortality.
Yet the spirit cannot be crushed, killed, wounded.
Let us pray that everyone who has suffered
may find strength in the spirit."

--Modern prayer from Gujarat, India
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"There are times when even to live is an act of bravery."
--Seneca (c.4BCE - 65CE), Rome
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wednesday, september 12

Today, like every day,
we wake up hollow and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.
Reach for a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
----Jalil al-Din Rumi (1207-73), Persia
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