Peace Prayers

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The Sanctuary

 

It could be said that God’s foot is so vast

that this entire earth is but a

field on His

toe,

 

and all the forests in this world

came from the same root of just

a single hair

of His.

 

What then is not a sanctuary?

Where then can I not kneel

and pray at a shrine

made holy by His

presence.

 

~~~ Saint Catherine of Siena

Page 205, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices

from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin

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Until Your Own Dawn

 

Daybreak:

everything in this world is a luminous divine dream

I have spun.

 

I did not know life was a fabric woven by my soul.

Any form that can appear to you—should I confess

this?—

it is something I made.

All roots nurse

from

me.

 

God’s art is mine. I did not want His divine talent.

It simply grew in my heart from

the way I

loved.

 

Existence is as a young child moving through

a lane at night;

 

it wanted to

hold my

hand.

 

Here, dear, hold me,

until your own

dawn.

 

~~~ Saint Catherine of Siena

Page 208, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices

from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin

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A Great Yogi

 

In my travels I spent time with a great yogi.

Once he said to me,

 

“Become so still you hear the blood flowing

through your veins.”

 

One night as I sat in quiet,

I seemed on the verge of entering a world inside so

vast

I know it is the source of

all of

us.

 

~~~ Mirabai

Page 205, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices

from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin

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