(07/40)

The 77% Weekly – the 40/52 week a year newsletter of Religion-Outside-The-Box – just got a touch of a make-over.

At the risk of sounding a tad like an commercial – “it’s the same great product, just in a new package.”

Tayfur Abu Yazid Al-Bistami:

For
years, I would say, ‘Do this’ and ‘Give me that.’ When I reached the
shores of wisdom, Isaid, ‘God, be mine and do what You want.’

The prayer of St. Francis:

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

The Serenity Prayer:

God,
grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage
to change the things I can. And, the wisdom to know the difference.

Plato’s Prayer in Phaedrus:

Phaedrus: But let us go, now that it has become less oppressively hot.
Socrates: Shouldn’t we first offer a prayer?
Phaedrus: Of course.
Socrates:
Dear Pan, and all you other gods who live here, grant that I may become
beautiful within, and that whatever outward things I have may be in
harmony with the spirit inside me. May I understand that it is only the
wise who are rich, and may I have only as much money as a temperate
person needs. – Is there anything else that we can ask for, Phaedrus?
For me, that prayer is enough.
Phaedrus: Make it a prayer for me too, since friends have all things in common.
Socrates: Let’s be going.

Psalm 136:

Praise God, for it is good.