Tears of Gentle Love

May I not increase the ignorance of wrongdoers by my intolerance or vindictiveness.  Inspire me to help them by my forgiveness, prayers, and tears of gentle love. 
Paramahansa Yogananda, "Whispers from Eternity"

Seek to do brave and lovely things that are left undone by the majority of people.  Give gifts of love and peace to those whom others pass by.
Paramahansa Yoganda, SRF Lessons

Prophets needed

A good book I'm reading, God and the Evolving Universe, speaks of prophets as spiritual antennae, taking their nation to task for its failings, measuring its realities against sacred ideals and offering moral critique to the highest of worldly powers (p39).  Prophets are an essential element of a just society. Who today is calling the world to recognize that "every human being, simply by virtue of his or her humanity, is a child of God and therefore in possession of the rights that even kings must respect." (Huston Smith quoted).
... and a few chapters later this quote from Ohiyesa, a Dakota Sioux medicine man caught my eye, " In the life of the Indian there was only one inevitable duty - the duty of prayer."
... and at the end, in discussing the transformative practice of prayer" -- "(prayer) actually exerts an influence, raises our centre of personal energy and produces regenerative effects unattainable in other ways."

So let us all do our duty as humans, as children of God, and pray.  And may our prayers raise up our own energy and apply a regenerative effect upon our prison system.  May our praying lift up the prophet in each of us to call for a just society.


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