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Hindu Wisdom
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
— Ram Dass in Still Here
A Prayer for Suicide Victims
Newspapers, magazines, and television reports deliver the story of another suicide: a famous filmmaker leaps to his death off a bridge, a college student exposed by classmates as being gay takes his…
A Prayer for Those Who Are Unconcerned About Economic Inequality
Compassionate One, we pray that you will guide, sustain, and take care of those who are suffering as a result of economic inequality around the world. In the United States, there is the greatest gap…
A Prayer for a Sober View of Disaster
"No one ever understood disaster until it came," wrote Josephine Herbst in Nothing Is Sacred. Sadly, people who are now facing hurricane inundations, wildfires, and earthquakes know that feeling of …
A Prayer for the 145 School Children Murdered in Pakistan
O Loving One, Ya Wadud, we grieve with the parents, family, and friends of the 145 school children who were murdered at their school in Peshawar, Pakistan, by the Taliban, on December 15, 2014. May …
Talking with Tomorrow's Peacemakers
By Akash V. Mehta in the Conflict and Peacemakers issue.
We live in a violent world filled with conflict, and we always have. But every member of every generation has a responsibility to our worl…
A Prayer from Charlottesville
Bestower of Peace, it is hard to know how to pray as respect and civility in the United States unravel at the seams. It's even harder to know how to pray when incivility turns murderous.
Source: …
A Prayer for Our Role in Climate Change
Image credit: Hurricane Michael on October 9, 2018, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
As of this writing in October 2018, we're facing into the devastation of the third stro…
"F" is for Faith
Faith rarely comes to us whole; mostly it comes in pieces, sometimes in tiny fragments, especially when life feels broken. Sometimes faith is lost altogether in the breaking. When children are massa…
A Prayer in Response to Buddhist Leaders' Stance of Conscience
On Friday, September 15, 2017, more than 110 Buddhist teachers from more than a dozen countries united to call upon Buddhist leaders in Myanmar to help stop "systematic violence and abuse directed a…