Spiritual Wisdom of the Week
by: Rabbi Michael Lerner on September 8th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This week’s spiritual wisdom comes from Jonathan Granoff, the author, attorney, and peace activist whose writing we featured earlier this summer:
Photo courtesy of FlickrCC/Per Ola Wiberg
May we know our connection with the living Earth, our connection with all lives, our connection within with the qualities that lead to wisdom, and with the omnipresent light that brings us upwards into the Source and Sustainer of all.
May our feet walk in beauty with softness on the earth and may we be at one with all life.
May we separate from ourselves that which separates us from our fellow human beings. What separates are qualities reinforcing the illusion of separation such as selfishness, anger, falsehood, jealousy, and pride.
May we be imbued and saturated with the life affirming qualities of love, compassion, justice, peace, patience, and gratitude.
Oh dear God bless us to realize the qualities that open the heart.
May we rise into fullness in the light of God’s grace, into the knowledge found within the unity of life, and into the realization that we live in God and God lives in us.
May we have the courage to surrender into that power of goodness, become free from the love of power and be guided by the power of love.
May our hearts be without boundaries and be free in the power of love.
In this manner we realize liberation.
May we be and serve peace from within the state of liberation.
Amen
How beautiful! Wouldn’t be wonderful if we all practices that? It would be a much better way.
Asalaamu aleikum Jonathan- Ahamid, thank you for this very uplifting and enlightening spiritual prayer-meditation…are you still a Sufi adherant of the gentle and wise M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen…i still treasure the book that you gave me ISLAM AND WORLD PEACEand signed for me sevral years ago…i know many muslims have fallen by the wayside as far as showing the heart of Islam in a world that critiques it in a hostile way… your sister Aminah Yaquin Carroll
(Temple of Understanding–Interfaith Fellowship)
Ramadan Mubarek
It is quite fitting that Jonathan Granoff’s thoughts about forming a connection with the earth are accompanied by a picture of a tree. It is all very well to have kind feelings about the earth but it is not enough. One must do something. One can do something concrete and specific to benefit the planet and its people. One can do it right now – plant a tree. Buy saplings from nurseries, plant fruit from the market, buy seed packets and germinate them yourself. Wherever there is unused ground, plant a grove. Plant one a month. More if you have the time. Make your next birthday gift a shovel.