I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.

~ Rumi ~

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The Atomic Bomb Dome pictured here

was the only structure left standing in the area 74 years ago when the first atomic bomb was detonated in Hiroshima, Japan

Its marker reads:

“As a historical witness that conveys the tragedy of suffering the first atomic bomb in human history and as a symbol that vows to faithfully seek the abolition of nuclear weapons and everlasting world peace.”

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the children of the earth gather this day in front of the Atomic Dome in the Hiroshima Memorial Park at exactly the time 74 years earlier that an explosion of atoms shattered the world… today, as millions come together across the world, we unite for an explosion of a vastly different sort… an explosion of love and peace, a chorus of voices with every country in the world represented in one unified prayer for peace… may peace prevail on earth…

yes, the one heart of all our relations choir is now unstoppable… yes, peace prevails on earth…

thousandfold thanks for standing together in love and peace for love and peace…

and, may we all join with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui in calling for the total elimination of the world’s nuclear weapons…

heiwa, heiwa, heiwa…

typhoon francisco came roaring through Japan today and still we stood in peace for peace… thank you for joining in and being a pulse that lights up the world with prayers for harmony, conscious evolution and for peace to prevail on Earth… let us close with the Nuclear Prayer…

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The Beginning and the End are in your hands, O Creator of the Universe. And in our hands you have placed the fate of this planet. We, who are tested by having both creative and destructive power in our free will, turn to you in sober fear and in intoxicating hope. We ask for your guidance and to share in your imagination in our deliberations about the use of nuclear force. Help us to lift the fog of atomic darkness that hovers so pervasively over our Earth, Your Earth, so that soon all eyes may see life magnified by your pure light. Bless all of us who wait today for your Presence and who dedicate ourselves to achieve your intended peace and rightful equilibrium on Earth. In the Name of all that is holy and all that is hoped. Amen.

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Thousandfold Peace, Thousandfold Peace, Thousand Thousandfold Peace in our one cosmic heart…

Peace Prevails on Earth!