Posts Tagged "prayer"

A Lakota Prayer

Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my Sacred Space and love beyond my fear, and thus Walk in Balance with the passing of each glorious...

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Bodhisattva Prayer for Humanity

Bodhisattva Prayer for Humanity

“May I be a guard for those who need protection A guide for those on the path A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood May I be a lamp in the darkness A resting place for the weary A healing medicine for all who are sick A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles And for the boundless multitudes of living beings May I bring sustenance and awakening Enduring like the earth...

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Sun Tracks

The track of the sun across the sky leaves its shining message, Illuminating, Strengthening, Warming 
us who are here, Showing us we are not alone, we are yet ALIVE! And this fire… Our fire… Shall not die. — Choctaw Sun Prayer Thank you Nick Polizzi Host of Remedy: Ancient Medicine for Modern Illness & Founder of The Sacred...

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A Quechua Prayer

“Great Creator, Grant me the light of wisdom. Mother Earth, bountiful source, Help me draw strength from the ground beneath my feet. Father Sun, radiant child, Fill me with the warmth and energy to face my trials. Mountain Spirits, who walk the wind, Guide me on the path of resilience and determination. May the sacred waters cleanse my soul, And may the fires of transformation forge my...

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A Kahuna’s prayer

Take all that I say, And toss away Without a thought All that does not Strike within you A recognition. For you do not learn Wisdom and love You only encounter Catalysts to remember it. For it is all Within yourself. Thank You -Nick Polizzi Host of Remedy: Ancient Medicine For Modern Illness & Founder of The Sacred...

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A Gigantic Prayer

Bravo Viva Aloha Blessed be We are free Abracadabra This is a perfect moment. It’s a perfect moment because I have been inspired to say a gigantic prayer. I have been roused to unleash a divinely greedy, apocalyptically healing prayer for each and every one of us — even those of us who don’t believe in the power of prayer. And so I’m starting to pray right now to the God of Gods...

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On Storytelling

There is this old Celtic thing, that there is very little difference between a song and a poem, between a poem and a story, between a story and a prayer, so that anytime someone is singing a song,or telling a story or reading poetry to a child, they are also inviting the child into a prayer.  There’s never a need to talk down to the child at all, because something in the child already...

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A Native American Smoke Blessing 

Oh Great Spirit, I raise smoke to the four sacred winds and the four corners, so that the blessings can reach my brothers and sisters in every corner of Great Mother Earth, while the smoke disperses all over Father Sky, lit by Mother Moon. Let the smoke pass to each their blessing, and do away with all sorrows and unhappiness, fill their homes with love,  and the light of your wisdom. If any be...

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All we need

All we need is the morning. As long as there is sunrise, then there is the possibility that we can face all of our misfortunes, celebrate all our blessings, and live all our endeavors as human beings. Spirituality is something that has become necessary in these troubled times. Yet it is inherently superfluous. We need it to remind ourselves, to bolster ourselves, to integrate ourselves, to...

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Something To Give Back

Here is my deepest and most pleasing secret; I have something to give back to the Creator. It is no material thing, this offering, but the emanation of my being, a wordless rejoicing, spirit giving back to spirit, my life as heart-felt offering. What I give is taken in with such unquestioning acceptance, a receptivity so vast that I want to pour myself out until nothing more of me is left,...

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