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SACRED TEXT SELECTIONS

Please choose from the following sacred text selections for your custom skywheel print. Text given in its language of origin will be produced in that language. If you would prefer the text to be in English, please let us know.



1. Om Mani Padme Hum (the jewel in the lotus).
-- Tibetan Buddhist mantra

2. Beings are numberless,
I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible, I vow to end them.
Dharma-gates are boundless, I vow to enter them.
Buddha's Way is unsurpassable, I vow to become it.
-- Zen Buddhist Mantra

3. Behave with good character, take care of your wife, take care of your children, you will see me no more, but I will abide with you and whatever you do to me will determine how orderly your life will be. May it be so.
-- excerpt from Invocation for Good Character, Yoruba praise song, Ifa tradition.

4. Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done, On Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us Not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the Kingdom, And the power and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.
-- Jesus of Nazareth

5. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
-- Book of Psalms 51:10

6. Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth peace goodwill to all.

7. Ik Oankaar, Sat-Naam, Karta-Purakh, Nirbhau, Nirvair, Akal-Moorat, Ajoonee, Saibhang, Gur-Prasaad. Jap. Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach. Hai Bhee Sach, Nanak Hosee Bhee Sach.
He is one. He is Omkar, the supreme truth. He is creator, beyond fear, beyond rancor.
He is the timeless form. Never born, self- creating. He is attained by the Guru's Grace.
He was the truth before ages and as time ran its course.
Nanak says: Now is he truth eternal, and forever will he be.
-- The Mool Mantra: the first lines of the Japji Sahib Sikh Holy text (Translation by Osho)

8. Om sada sivaya vidmahe sahasraksaya dhimahe tanno sambho pracodayat om.
We meditate upon the Perfect, Full, Complete, Always Continuing, Consciousness of Infinite Goodness; contemplate He Whose Thousand Eyes see everywhere. May that Giver of Bliss grant us increase.
-- Shiva Dhyanam Prayer

9. You are the Trinity of Truth, knowledge, and Bliss,
You are the Source of Truth, the Ocean of Love;
You are the Ancient One, the Highest of the High;
You are Prabhu and Parameshwar,
You are the Beyond-God, and the Beyond-Beyond God also,
You are Parabrahma, Allah, Elahi, Yezdan,  Ahuramazda, and God the Beloved.
You are named Ezad — the only One worthy of worship.
- Meher Baba, Excerpt of the Universal Prayer (Master’s Prayer) 1953

10. There is only one life.
That life is God's life.
That life is perfect.
That life is my life now!
–unknown (submitted by Caron Lowe)

11. May peace prevail on Earth.
-- International Peace Prayer

12. We ask you, our Lord, the Granter of security, to bless us and our families, friends, neighbors, communities and the whole worlds with everlasting peace and security.
-- excerpt from Islamic Supplications, Imam Sameh Asal

13. Send Thy peace O Lord, which is
perfect and everlasting,
that our souls may radiate peace.
-excerpt from Prayer for Peace on Earth  by Hazrat Inayat Khan  (Sufi, appropriate for many faiths) 

14. The heavens recount the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims His handiwork;
--excerpt from Tehilim (Psalm 19)

15. Let the earth bless the Lord, Praise and exalt God above all forever!
Mountains and hills, bless the Lord, Everything growing from the earth, bless the Lord.
- The Bible, Daniel 3:74

16. I will trust and be not afraid.
-- Isaiah

17. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
-- Excerpt from he Shema-V'Ahavta

18. You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. You have made me cross the good road, and the road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things.
– Prayer by Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

19. Liberation upon Seeing.
-- The Liberation Upon Seeing Mantra is a terma (hidden dharma treasure) discovered by the terton (treasure revealer) Yonge Mingyur Dorje in the seventeenth century. Mingyur Dorje is regarded as the 27th guru of the Perfect Enlightenment Sect of the Nyingmapa school.

20. If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart.
-- Prayer for Peace, Lao-Tse

21. We affirm that peace is an idea whose time has come.
-- excerpt from the Universal Peace Covenant, School of Metaphysics

22. Almighty Father, thy love is like a great sea that girdles the earth. Out of the deep, we come to float for awhile upon its surface. We cannot tell its depth nor know its greatness, only we know that it never faileth.
-Thy love is like a great sea Submitted by John Robert Craft.

23. I circle around the boundaries of the Earth. I circle around the boundaries of the Earth.
Wearing my long-winged feathers as I fly. Wearing my long-winged feathers as I fly.
I circle around the boundaries of the Earth.
-- traditional shamanic song

24. From all that dwell below the skies, let songs of hope and faith arise;
Let peace on Earth be sung through every land, by every tongue.
-- Tallis' Canon, Unitarian Universalism

25. I trust and Know that I am being led aright, guided perfectly, protected flawlessly. For I am cared for nurtured enlightened and blessed with the qualities of contentment, bliss, forgiveness, and tolerance. –Master Path: The Light and Sound Teaching, Sri Gary Olsen

26. “Ashem vohu vahishtem asti; ushta asti, Ushta ahmai hyat Ashai; vahishtai Ashem.”
Righteousness is the highest virtue. It leads to enlightened happiness,
This happiness is attained when one lives righteously for the sake of Righteousness.
–Zoroastrian Prayer

27. “Yatha ahu vairyo atha ratush ashat-chit hacha,
Vangheush dazda Manangho shyaothananam angheush mazdai
Khshathrem-cha Ahurai a yim drigubyo dadat vastarem”
Just as we choose to worship the Lord (Ahura Mazda)
So do we make our decisions in accordance with the Truth.
The gift of the Good Mind is granted in order to advance the good creation.
The Power of Ahura Mazda comes to him, who works for the poor. –Zoroastrian Prayer

28. Yenghe hatam, aat yesne paiti vangeho, Mazdao Ahuro, vaetha Ashat hacha
Yaonghamcho tascha taoscha yazamaide.”
 Mazda Ahura knows well, those men and women, whose every act of
worship is living a life in accordance with highest Righteousness. Such
men and women we revere. –Zoroastrian Prayer

29. “Father of us all,
Thank you for the spirit setting in the East
Thank you for the spirit setting in the South
Thank you for the spirit setting in the West
Thank you for the spirit setting in the North
Thank you and watch over all the people
That is all I have to say.” -- Pottowattome Prayer

30. Lokaha Samastaha Sukhino Bhavantu
Lokaha Samastaha Sukhino Bhavantu  
Lokaha Samastaha Sukhino Bhavantu    
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti-hi
May all beings, in all worlds be blessed with freedom, health and happiness
Om, we invoke the Divine Primordial Source Energy to infuse us with
 Peace in all bodies, Peace in all minds, Peace in all souls.
-- universal prayer of blessing for the welfare of all beings throughout creation. Hindu Bhajan

31. Sa’i Allahu liman hamidah Rabbana wa lakal hamd – excerpt from Islamic Daily Prayer