Religious Harmony
One of the most reliable routes to world peace is for people to share their sacred experiences without getting snarled in religious divisions. Each religion has a unique bouquet of love, harmony, and beauty. Taken all together, these varied bouquets bring a powerful healing fragrance to our world. Here is your place to offer to others encounters with the Divine nearest to your heart.

All that I read here is so absolutely beautiful.It has been quite some time since I have dedicated my thinking to see that others are thinking and posting at all times of day and night. I loved the post about "being safe in God's pocket"! I raise pine trees in my back yard which is difficult to do in the desert but they are growing so tall...reaching limbs to the sky and the Heavens. They become homes to birds of variety, and they bless me with falling needles and pine cones. People come to see them as some are over thirty foot tall. I love to nurture them, I care for them on Saturdays, watering, fertilizing, and when no one is looking but the late afternoon sunset or night and the navy blue sky filled with stars, I hug them...and ironically I feel them filling me with their awesomeness...and on really bad nights I crawl underneath them and just look up at the night sky...almost a feeling of being "in God's pocket". Love to you all this day all over the world and Namaste. Anna
- Anna, Phoenix   20 Nov 2009

Every day, the sun and clouds, the sky, the trees, the birds, all of God's animals, greet me and give me something beautiful to look at or experience. It is all God speaking to me, and I love to listen. Never, is one day the same, not one sunset, sunrise is the same. A new bird or insect crosses my path each day. A new nuzzle or lick or vocalization comes from my farm animals each day. Each day is uniquely beautiful. I am thankful for God's gifts to me.
- Kristin, Virginia   14 Nov 2009

This brought to mind the same peaceful sense of awe I feel when I see both God's and Man's creations. Are they not one in the same?
- Toby, Minnesota   12 Nov 2009

Sitting in silence this morning and doing this practice prompted me to contact an old friend and make amends. It just came to me after many years of silence between us.
- Linda, USA   27 Oct 2009

Moments of peace for me; walking a path near trees - coming to a bench - sitting in the warm sun - seeing the brilliant green grass - my heart filled with quiet joy - just 'being' in that blessed moment - out of thought - drinking up the glorious gifts - I am thankful again as I relive it.
- Annette, Canada   20 Oct 2009

The air I breathe in has been around for eons, it is the same air, just recycled, that all my ancestors breathed. What connection.
- m.r., az   7 Oct 2009

I am safe in God's Pocket!!!
- DBD, San Diego, California   27 Sep 2009

Mother Theresa has said: "I respect my Muslim brother and I respect my Hindu brother but for me GOD has ordained for me to be a catholic and to serve him in this way: That is how I feel. I want to be a friend to my Muslim brother and my Hindu sister. Like Charles de Foucald who went to live in the desert in Tamanssaret to be a friend to the tuareg people nver wanting to convert them always wanting to just be there, to be a friend to them that is what GOD calls me to do today!
- Elizabeth maria Jones, Auckland, New Zealand   26 Aug 2009

While meditating, I suddenly realized that I was OK the way I was. I didn't have to accomplish something record-breaking to be OK. I didn't have to justify my existence. THe image is of paper-doll cutouts dancing before a huge fire. THe fire was--I don't know--divine love. The paper dolls were all my daily fears, ambitions and vanities. FInally I could see beyond them into the fire.
- TLE, Berkeley CA   19 Aug 2009

G_d is love and we are one with G_d if we love.
- LVIG, USA   11 Aug 2009

Anecdote: for years and years I had problems with self-esteem (common problem with perfectionnists!), it is a very common problem you know. Once in meditation I saw God in the form of the Hindu God Shiva (with blue skin, a bit like the natural gas genie, if you will) three stories high picking me up like a doll and holding me tenderly to His heart and He said : Line I love You. I have been Catholic, Protestant. Now I am... me I guess. Labels mean nothing.
- Green Woman, Montreal Quebec Canada   29 Jul 2009

I created this meditation to help me center and be open to the voice of God. Breathe in Spirit; breathe out peace: The peace of God is above me. The peace of God is beneath me. The peace of God is around me. The peace of God is within me. The peace of God flows through me. I am peace. Peace to all.
- Galen, So. California   27 Jul 2009