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O Great spirit of our Ancestors,
We raise our pipes to you;
To your messengers in the four winds,
and to Mother Earth who provides for
your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind
to each other,
so that they may grow with peace in
mind.
Let us learn to share all good things
that you provide for us on this
Earth.
- Native American
"Our Father, it is thy universe, it
is thy will,
Let us be at peace, let the souls of
all people be at peace.
Thou art our Father; remove all
illusion from our path."
- African
"All this is full. All That is full.
From fullness, fullness comes.
When Fullness is taken from fullness,
Fullness still remains.
Om. Peace, peace, peace."
- Hindu
"May the Lord bless you and keep you;
May the Lord make his face to shine
upon you,
and be gracious to you;
May the Lord lift up his countenance
upon you,
and give you peace."
- Judaic
"We do not mirror ourselves in
running water,
We mirror ourselves in still water.
Only what is still
can still the stillness of other
things."
- Taoist
"This is Peace, this is the
excellent,
namely the calm of all the impulses,
the casting out of all "basis,"
the extinction of craving,
dispassion, stopping,
Nirvana."
- Buddhist
"Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth,
peace and good will toward all
beings."
- Christian
"Now is the gracious Lord's ordinance
promulgated,
No one shall cause another pain or
injury;
All humanity shall live in peace
together,
Under a shield of administrative
benevolence."
- Sikh
In the name of Allah
the beneficent, the merciful.
Praise be to the Lord of the
Universe,
who has created us and made us into
tribes and nations
that we may know each other,
not that we may despise each other.
If the enemy incline towards peace,
do thou also incline towards peace,
and trust God,
for the Lord is the one
that heareth and knoweth all things.
And the servants of God, most Gracious
are those who walk on the earth in
Humility,
and when we address them,
we say "PEACE."
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