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Prayer of Peace

I offer this prayer of peace
Not to the Christian God
Nor to the Buddhist God
Nor to the Islamic God
Nor to the Jewish God
But to the God of all humanity

For the peace that we wish for
Is Not a Christian peace
Nor a Buddhist peace
Nor an Islamic peace
Nor a Jewish peace
But a human peace
For all of us.

I offer this prayer of peace
To the God that lives within all of us
That fills us with happiness and joy
To make us whole
And help us understand life
As an expression of love for all human beings

For no religion can be better
Than any other religion
For no truth can be truer
Than any other truth
For no nation can be bigger
Than the earth itself.

Help us all go beyond
Our small limits
And realize that we are one
That we are all from the earth.
That we are all earth people
before we are Indians, Koreans, or Americans

God made the earth
We humans have to make it prosper
By realizing that we are of the earth
And not of any nation, race, or religion.
By knowing that we are truly one
In our spiritual heritage.

Let us now apologize
to all humanity
For the hurt that religions have caused
So that we can heal the hurt
Let us now promise to one another
To go beyond egotism and competition
To come together as one in God.

I offer this prayer of peace
To you the almighty
To help us find you within all of us
So that we may stand proudly one day before you
As one humanity.

I offer this prayer of peace
With all my fellow earth people
For a lasting peace on earth.

Ilchi Lee presented this prayer at the Opening Ceremony of the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations on August 28th, 2000

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(from Ilchi.com)

From Ilchi Lee’s book The Twelve Enlightenments

The direction that our human civilization has been headed toward until now was always the outside.  “Stronger, higher, and faster” is not an Olympics motto any more than it is a self-declaration of the human civilization.  Such movement toward the external, the outside, is inevitably expressed through activities defined by possession and domination.  And the results are always more land, more money, more power… an inevitable spiral of “better and more” that leads to competition that divides us into winners and losers.  Since sharing the pie would decrease one’s own piece, monopoly and absolute control drives the day.  On the other hand, a direction toward the inside, toward inner civilization, leads us to strengthen our inner powers of love and peace, which are expressed through actions such as forgiveness, reconciliation, and calmness.  Since the destination of this direction is perfect completion instead of absolute victory, sharing does not decrease my own lot.  My perfection of the soul does not prevent others from reaching their own perfection, and my sense of peace does not lessen because I freely share it with others.  Human civilization, until now, expresses our instinctive desire to grow by worshipping the body and pursuing external powers.  We have come to realize that this direction will not take us forever, that it is not sustainable.  This is not a value judgment of good vs. evil on our current civilization: this is an objective and impartial judgment.  The reason we have to effect a shift in our civilization is not that our civilization is evil or weak, but that it is not sustainable.

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