Peace Prayers

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Self-Giving

 

We possess nothing in the world---a mere chance can

strip us of everything---except the power to say “I.”

And that is what we have to give to God. In other

words: Ourselves. There is absolutely no other free

act that is given to us to achieve---only the gift of

oneself.

 

~~~ Simone Weil, France, 1909-43

WomanPrayers: Prayers by Women from Throughout History

and Around the world.

Mary Ford-Grabowsky

Page 46, (Gathering Our Inner Strengths), Harper San

Francisco

 

 

>From Self Consciousness to Happiness

 

By keeping a diary of what made me happy,

I had discovered that happiness came

when I was most widely aware.

So I had finally come to the conclusion

that my task

was to become more and more aware,

more and more understanding

with an understanding

that was not at all the same thing

as intellectual comprehension.

And, by finding that,

in order to be more and more aware

I had to be more and more still,

I had not only come to see

through my own eyes,

instead of at second hand,

I had also finally come to discover

what was my way of escape

from the imprisoning island of my own

self-consciousness.

 

~~~ Marion Milner

WomanPrayers: Prayers by Women from Throughout History

and Around the world.

Page 47-8, (Gathering Our Inner Strengths), Harper San

Francisco

 

 

May you be drenched with the longing for peace,

and make justice blossom on earth.

 

~~~ Hildegard of Bingen, Germany 1098-1179

WomanPrayers: Prayers by Women from Throughout History

and Around the world.

Page 48, (Gathering Our Inner Strengths), Harper San

Francisco