Peace and love to you.
And to me.
A saint prayed to God in the following way: “O God, please be kind to evil people as much as you are to kind people. Kind people already feel good, because they are kind.”
—MUSLIH-UD-DIN SAADI
Peace to everyone today.
Peace and love, especially to those who only feel hate for themselves.
Peace to all the suffering, fragmented parts of my soul causing chaos on the planet.
Peace to those who condemn me to hell.
I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
Peace to you who feels separate from me.
Peace to me who feels separate from you.
Peace to the world in us.
All that I ever hope to say is that I love the world. — E. B. White
Love to the plants and animals, trees and birds. Love to the worms and microbes and bacteria. Love to the waters: river, streams, oceans and lakes. Love to the underground worlds and the invisible spirits. Love to the ancient matriarchs.
Love to the mountains and meadows, springs and sands. Love to the avatars in caves and coffee shops. Love to the winds, the rocks and the emerging redbud. Love to the ancestors, the patriarchs and ones about to enter this world.
Love and peace to me.
Love and peace to you.
That week before Roger passed away, I would see him and he would talk about having visited this other place. I thought he was hallucinating. I thought they were giving him too much medication. But the day before he passed away, he wrote me a note: "This is all an elaborate hoax." I asked him, "What's a hoax?" And he was talking about this world, this place. He said it was all an illusion. I thought he was just confused. But he was not confused. He wasn't visiting heaven, not the way we think of heaven. He described it as a vastness that you can't even imagine. It was a place where the past, present, and future were happening all at once.
—Chaz Ebert, wife of Roger Ebert
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. Love that Chaz Ebert quote/story.