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Dear friends,
Who will be the 100th Monkey? It could be any one of us: age, color, race, religion, sex, finances... none of these matter. It will be the one person who puts us over the edge, the one person who joins all people meditating for world peace to change the balance and make the make the critical mass. One becomes two becomes four becomes eight and so on until the hundreth person meditates, the shift occurs, the world let's out a universal sigh and we put down all our weapons and give each other one fantastic group hug! With love and peace, Ruth Fishel P.S. See article below LET'S MAKE A DIFFERENCE to learn about the 100th Monkey If you would like a copy of the pocket cards shown here, simply email us your address. |
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TIME FOR PEACE: A 30
Day Affirmations Plan
THIS COULD VERY LIKELY BE THE MOST POWERFUL TOOL FOR PEACE THAT YOU EVER HAD IN YOUR HANDS!!! PEACE begins with us. Just FIVE MINUTES A DAY meditating for peace can bring peace to you and those around you. The words that we speak, read and think are very powerful! The book TIME FOR PEACE is filled with powerful, stimulating, inspirational thoughts, words and quotes from famous and not so famous people, many written especially for this book. Imagine hundreds of thousands of people reading the same page, the same message each day and the lasting effect that these words would have on each individual as well as the people that they come in contact with is immeasurable See BOOKS AND TAPES page for ordering information on this booklet
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Peace Affirmations
I take time each day to
pray for world peace.
I know I am making a positive difference in the world today.
Today I am being a little kinder to everyone I meet.
Today I will do my very best to bring peace to my life
and to the lives of those around me.
I am sending thoughts of peace and love to my world family today.
I am meditating today for
world peace.
I am connected to all people who are a force of peace
and light in the universe.
I am bringing peace and serenity to at least one other person today.
LET'S MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
This tells about the 100th Monkey Syndrome
By Ruth Fishel
"When enough of us are aware of something,
all of us become aware of it."
Ken Keyes, Jr.
I wrote 5 MINUTES FOR WORLD PEACE...Forever: A 90 Day Affirmation Plan in
1991, during the Gulf War. My intention was to write
a 365 page book with daily reflections on world peace, based on
the principles of affirmations. Wanting to get it out right away,
Health Communications, Inc. published it as a 90 day plan.
The premise for this book was that if thousands of people
read the same page of this book each day, the energy from their
thoughts would spread out into the world and we could have world
peace. Since thoughts are energy which we send out into the
universe, we have the power to change what is
going on in the world.
This is certainly not a new thought. People have believed in the
power of prayers for thousands of years, and prayers are thoughts.
While my book is no longer in print, the concept is as valid
as ever. Thoughts are energy and are so
powerful they can change many of the people around
us. Remember, thoughts are energy. And energy makes
things happen.
Spend a few moments being still and let yourself feeel how
powerful one word can be.
PEACE Let yourself feeel the
effect of just this one word PEACE
Now imagine thousands of people reading this one word and the
lasting effect it would have on each individual as well as on the
people with whom they come in contact.
In his book The Hundredth Monkey, Ken Keyes, Jr. wrote about
scientists who had been observing monkeys in the wild for
thirty years. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, they provided
monkeys with sweet potatoes which they had dropped in sand. The monkeys
liked the taste of the potatoes but found the sand
unpleasant. One day, an eighteen month old monkey named Imo washed
the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught the trick to her mother
and her playmates, who taught it to their mothers. As the story is
told, perhaps 99 monkeys learned to wash their
sweet potato between 1952 and 1958. One day the 100th
monkey learned to wash the potatoes. Suddenly, almost
every monkey on the island began to wash their
potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this 100th monkey had somehow
created a behavioral breakthrough.
But, more amazing, the scientists observed that the act of washing sweet
potatoes had jumped over the sea, because the colonies
of monkeys on other islands, as far as 500 miles away, began washing
their sweet potatoes.
This phenomena is known as "critical mass." When a limited number of
people know something in a new way, it remains the
conscious property of only those people. However, there is a point
at which if only one more person tunes in to a new awareness, a field
of energy is strengthened so that new awareness is picked up by almost
everyone.
Needless to say, this is not a very good time in the world. It is summer
of 2002. There is merciless, tragic fighting going on
in the Mid East. We have not recovered from the tragedy of the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and are told there will be more
attacks. The stock market is making new lows every day and many
people are losing their life-savings.
I invite you to join me and make a difference! Here
are World Peace affirmations from CHANGE ALMOST ANYTHING IN 21 DAYS:
I take time each day to pray for
world peace.
I know I am making a positive
difference in the world today.
Today I am being a little kinder to
everyone I meet.
Today I will do my very best to
bring peace to my life and to the lives of those
around me.
I am sending thoughts of peace and
love to my world family today.
New ones I have added for the expanded version of the book
I am meditating today for world
peace.
I am connected to all people who are a force of peace and light in the
universe.
I am bringing peace and serenity to at least one other person today.
(I welcome others you might have)
Let your heart select one of the affirmations. Write that affirmation on
a few index cards. Carry one with you at all times.
You can put another one on your mirror so you will see it and read it to
yourself every day. Place one on the visor of your car. Place it
anywhere else that feels right to you. Quote your affirmation when
you end your email. AND WRITE IT AT LEAST ONE TIME A DAY. I'm not
asking that you write it 10 times, because I know you have other changes you
want to make in your life and if you commit to too much,
you might not do anything. So I suggest you write it AT LEAST ONE
TIME. More is better!
Let's do it. Tell your family and friends about this project. It will
take less than one minute in your day and who
knows...we might see it work in our lifetime!
If you would like an affirmation card you can carry with you, email me at
Spirithaven@spirithaven.com with your address and I'll mail you one.
With love and peace, Ruth
METTA
Metta Loving-Kindness From Precious Solitude
"So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love, born
out of concern for all beings."
The Buddha Metta is a wonderful Buddhist practice that helps us to love
ourselves and others and to bring forgiveness to ourselves and to others. It
helps to free us of anger, resentments, self doubt, guilt and shame. The word
Metta is a Pali word with two root meanings. One is gentle and the other is
friend. Sharon Saltberg tells us that the foundation of Metta practice is how to
be our own friend. She tells us that we must love ourselves before we can bring
love to anyone else. Once we can bring love to ourselves, then we can expand
upon that love, and send love to others. It become possible, if we are willing,
to send love to someone who has harmed us so that we can release ourselves from
our anger and resentments. This is a wonderful exercise for forgiveness and
freedom. Finally, we can send out this feeling of love to all people suffering
in the universe. Jack Kornfield tells us, "The quality of loving kindness is the
fertile soil out of which an integrated spiritual life can grow."
Begin by taking a few minutes to be with your breath, breathing in peace and
breathing out tension.
When you feel calm and relaxed, imagine that you are in your inner sanctuary.
This is the place where you heart lives, a place where you feel love.
Say to yourself:
May I be happy...
May I be peaceful...
May I be free from suffering.
Now bring in someone into your heart who you care about and say:
May you be happy...
May you be peaceful...
May you be free from suffering.
Now if you want to, bring in someone you would like to forgive or receive
forgiveness from, someone; a person with whom you would like to come to peace
and say:
May you be happy...
May you be peaceful...
May you be free from suffering.
Expand that feeling to everyone you know, your family, friends and colleagues
and say:
May you be happy...
May you be peaceful...
May I be free from suffering.
And now extend that feeling to people with AIDS, cancer, and other life
threatening diseases, to the addicts and the alcoholics, the hungry and the
homeless, the people in wars and say:
As we want to be happy, may everyone be happy...
As we want to be peaceful, may everyone be peaceful...
And as we want to be free from suffering, may everyone be free from suffering...
You can repeat these phrases over and over for as long as you like. Take some
time to let yourself feel filled with the love you have brought to yourself and
others. And when ever you are ready, come back to your room. Be sure you count
to five before you open your eyes.
There are many variations of metta. Create your own phrases. For example, if you
notice you are impatient, you might want to say, "May I filled with patience."
If you are having a difficult time with yourself, you can concentrate on
bringing love into your own heart and say, "May I be filled with love." If you
are angry at someone, you might say, "May I be free from resentments." This is a
wonderful exercise that you can practice in solitude for what is going on in
your life at any particular time. Today I have the willingness and the desire to
be a loving person. I can take time in solitude to fill my heart with love and
pass it on. *****************************
This comes from the website of the Peace Abbey.
*Peace Seeds are distributed by the children at The Life Experience School under the care and direction of The Peace Abbey, 2 North Main St., Sherborn, MA 01770. 508-650-3659 Fax 655-5031 We'd love to hear from you!
"Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions." --- Mahatma Gandhi.
What is currently raging in the Middle East and has the potential to explode, big time. I ask those of you who care about the region and the future of our planet to send energy. Whatever energy you feel would be most helpful. Not to force peace, because that's another act of war. But to focus on consciousness expansion within each person; to send the message that everyone is connected and comes from the same Source; that whatever we do to another person we are doing to ourselves. Focus on fear being replaced with love.
Here are some prayers of peace from the major religions in the world. If they resonate with you, use them as you send energy to the Middle East. The place needs a major consciousness shift. Thank you.
Peace Seeds represent the twelve prayers for peace prayed in Assisi, Italy, on the Day of Prayer for World Peace during the United Nations International Year of Peace, 1986. The Prayers were brought to the United States and entrusted to the care of the children at The Life Experience School.* Find one you are most drawn towards (or use them all), and speak them as a sacred mantra for your peace meditations.
1. THE HINDU PRAYER FOR PEACE Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real. Oh God, lead us from darkness to light. Oh God, lead us from death to immortality. Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all. Oh Lord God almighty, may there be peace in celestial regions. May there be peace on earth. May the waters be appeasing. May herbs be wholesome, and may trees and plants bring peace to all. May all beneficent beings bring peace to us. May thy Vedic Law propagate peace all through the world. May all things be a source of peace to us. And may thy peace itself, bestow peace on all, and may that peace come to me also.
2. THE BUDDHIST PRAYER FOR PEACE May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wildernesses - the children, the aged, the unprotected - be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.
3. THE JAINIST PRAYER FOR PEACE Peace and Universal Love is the essence of the Gospel preached by all the Enlightened Ones. The Lord has preached that equanimity is the Dharma. Forgive do I creatures all, and let all creatures forgive me. Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity. Know that violence is the root cause of all miseries in the world. Violence, in fact, is the knot of bondage. "Do not injure any living being." This is the eternal, perennial, and unalterable way of spiritual life. A weapon howsoever powerful it may be, can always be superseded by a superior one; but no weapon can, however, be superior to non-violence and love.
4. THE MUSLIM PRAYER FOR PEACE 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 in 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."
5. THE SIKH PRAYER FOR PEACE God adjudges us according to our deeds, not the coat that we wear: that Truth is above everything, but higher still is truthful living. "Know that we attaineth God when we loveth, and only that victory endures in consequence of which no one is defeated.
6. THE BAHAI' PRAYER FOR PEACE Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be fair in thy judgement, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.
7. THE SHINTO PRAYER FOR PEACE Although the people living across the ocean surrounding us, I believe, are all our brothers and sisters, why are there constant troubles in this world? Why do winds and waves rise in the ocean surrounding us? I only earnestly wish that the wind will soon puff away all the clouds which are hanging over the tops of the mountains.
8. THE NATIVE AFRICAN PRAYER FOR PEACE Almighty God, the Great Thumb we cannot evade to tie any knot; the Roaring Thunder that splits mighty trees: the all-seeing Lord up on high who sees even the footprints of an antelope on a rockmass here on Earth. You are the one who does not hesitate to respond to our call. You are the cornerstone of peace.
9. THE NATIVE AMERICAN PRAYER FOR PEACEO Great Spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to you. To your messengers 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 the good things that you provide for us on this Earth.
10. THE ZOROASTRIAN PRAYER FOR PEACE We pray to God to eradicate all the misery in the world: that understanding triumph over ignorance, that generosity triumph over indifference, that trust triumph over contempt, and that truth triumph over falsehood.
11. THE JEWISH PRAYER FOR PEACE Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, that we may walk the paths of the Most High. And we shall beat our swords into ploughshares, and our spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation - neither shall they learn war any more. And none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.
12. THE CHRISTIAN PRAYER FOR PEACE Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS, for they shall be known as the Children of God. But I say to you that hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To those who strike you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from those who take away your cloak, do not withhold your coat as well. Give to everyone who begs from you, and of those who take away your goods, do not ask them again. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.