As we are together, praying for peace, let us be truly with each other.
Let us pay attention to our breathing.
Let us be relaxed in our bodies and in our minds.
Let us be at peace with our body and with our minds.
Let us return to ourselves and become wholly ourselves.
Let us maintain a half-smile on our faces.
Let us be aware of the source of being common to us all and to all living beings.
Evoking the presence of the Great Compassion, let us fill our hearts with our own compassion---towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Let us pray that all living beings realize that they are all brothers and sisters, all nourished from the same Source of life.
Let us pray that we ourselves cease to be the cause of suffering to each other.
Let us plead with ourselves to live in a way which will not deprive other beings of air, water, food, shelter, or the chance to live.
With humility, with awareness of the existence of life, and of the sufferings that are going on around us, let us pray for the establishment of peace in our hearts and on earth. Amen
THICH NHAT HANH
Go in Peace, Come in Peace
I shall sing praises now that the time of the singing of birds has come, and I shall answer in song: go in peace, rain.
I shall look at the deeds of my God, so pleasant in their season, and sweetly say: come in peace, dew.
The rains are over and gone, the winter is past; everything is created with beauty: go in peace, rain.
The mandrakes give forth their perfume in the lovers' garden; sorrow is past: come in peace, dew.
The earth is crowned with new grain and wine, and every creature cries: go in peace, rain!
Traditional Hebrew
Source: Paths to Peace. p. 148 and 172.
