2020 Raise Your Words Initiative
“Raise Your Words, not your voice. It's the rain that grows the flowers, not the thunder...” - Rumi
May we take the time to Raise Our Words....
Let's raise the quality and compassion in our conversations with
our friends and neighbors...
our families...
our co-workers...
our environment...
our enemies...
With ALL Life...
all beginning within our own hearts...
“If we can just be kind, all the rest will fall behind, and we'll find who we're meant to be. I know fear and angers' voices all too well-- BUT if we can step back and let the wave of Love swell, then we will find the peace we seek....” - ~Randall Brooks
Universal Prayer for Peace:
(translation by Randall & Kristin Brooks)
Oṁ dyauḥ śantir
Let there be peace in the heavens.
antarikṣaṁ śantiḥ
Let there be peace in the space between heaven and earth.
pṛthivī śantir
Let there be peace in the earth.
āpaḥ śantir
Let there be peace in the water.
oṣadhayaḥ śantiḥ
Let there be peace in the medicinal plants and herbs.
vanaspatayaḥ śantir
Let there be peace in the forests and fruit-bearing trees.
viśve devāḥ śantir
Let there be peace in all who carry Divine light
brahma śantiḥ
Let there be peace in continued expansion
sarvaṁ śantiḥ
Let there peace in all life, everywhere.
śantir eva śantiḥ sā mā śantir edhiḥ
And may we all be established in peace and only peace.
oṁ
Om... Let it be.
śantiḥ
Let there be peace in my being.
śantiḥ
Let there be peace in my environment and those around me.
śantiḥ
Let there be peace in the forces that act upon me.