Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment (by Dorothy Hunt)

 

Do you think peace requires an end to war?

Or tigers eating only vegetables?

Does peace require an absence from

your boss, your spouse, yourself?...

Do you think peace will come some other place than here?

Some other time than Now?

In some other heart than yours?

 

Peace is this moment without judgment.

That is all. This moment in the Heart-space

where everything that is is welcome.

Peace is this moment without thinking

that it should be some other way,

that you should feel some other thing,

that your life should unfold according to your plans.

 

Peace is this moment without judgment,

this moment in the Heart-space where

everything that is is welcome.

 

COMPLINE PRAYER (by Fred LaMotte)

 

I pray that you will flower

in darkness,

planted in the grace

of your body.

Freedom is your nature,

joy your birthright,

healing the rhythm

of your heartbeat.

Every proton in your flesh

is the kiss of an ancient star,

Each electron a wave

on the ocean of compassion.

Whose compassion?

Don't ask.

Names don't count

in this moment between

waking and sleep.

Who sleeps?

Don't ask.

Feel only an exquisite tenderness

for those who insist you have

no right to be happy.

May the golden fingers

of your vagus nerve

hold you like an offering

of delicious fruit.

All night, be breathed.