Every year
Please copy this and spread it around, we depend on YOU to spread the word.
I know this is a lot to read, but I
ask you to please read it through. Think about how a large demonstration could
change the way our leaders make decisions. If we start teaching our children by
example, instead of just saying things and not following through ourselves,
maybe, just maybe, they will understand the importance of their actions and
deeds. It is a simple way to teach our children that we do stand for living in
a peaceful world. That humans, as a species, can learn from their mistakes, and
live in balance with the planet, instead of destroying everything we touch. If
we can instill that profit from corrupt means will be a loss for mankind, and
endanger our planet's ability to enable us to survive, then perhaps they will
have lives that will be worth living in the future. You've heard it all before,
but haven't chosen to act. I am making it so easy for you to set an example, if
you don't, you will have no one to blame but yourself. It's about time we all
participate in the lessons of the way the web of life works. It is the same as
we all learned in school. You take away one piece of the web, and the whole
thing will collapse. It is a truth that has been taught but ignored through our
own greed and selfishness. Lets start with a simple act that will help us
realize how easy it is to make that change.
May Peace prevail on
Earth,
Peaceguy
Peaceguy's Prayer
May the
people on this planet be changed.
Changed from hatred to love,
Changed
from greed to giving,
Changed from selfishness to selflessness,
Changed
from apathy to action,
Changed from jealousy to joy over someone's
accomplishments,
Changed from intolerance to acceptance,
Changed from
being destructive to being constructive,
Changed from fighting to
peace,
Changed from killing to protecting life,
Changed from censorship
to freedom,
Changed from ignorance to education,
Changed from fearing
our differences to rejoicing our variety.
May we each take it upon
ourselves to feed the hungry, cure the sick,
house the homeless, educate
the illiterate, love the unloved,
compete to do the right thing instead of
winning at any cost,
make heros that teach our children to
make the
world a better place instead of glorifying violence and war,
stand up and
speak out against things that are wrong
instead of sitting back and waiting
for someone else,
demand honesty from our governments,
demand honesty
from ourselves.
May we each take responsibility for our own actions
and realize that by refusing to change ourselves,
we condone all the evils
in the world.
If one person changes they teach others by example,
who
in turn change and teach more,
one person becomes as a pebble rolling down
a mountain,
picking up more pebbles as it continues,
becoming an
avalanche of change.
It can happen, it must happen, it will happen.
To make this prayer work, you have to change yourself.
Copyright 1997
Don Morris. Feel free to use this anywhere and any place. All I ask is to
reference this website if you do.
Here is my pebble to start this
avalanche,.... hopefully you will add your pebble
and together we can
demonstrate how easy it is to make a grassroots movement work.
A
few years back I had a vision of creating a non-religious, non- governmental,
world inclusive, grassroots movement for a day to promote peace. I am no rocket
scientist, I am just a regular person who goes about my daily tasks to survive
in this world,... just like everyone else. I had the vision but no direction,
and did my best to make the demonstration easy. But I failed because people
look for some kind of director, some kind of organization to lead them and tell
them what to do. I failed to realize that petitions are a dime a dozen, and
concerts and large gatherings usually take some kind of organizing to pull off
and corporate sponsors and all the usual payments and permits associated with
it all. This was something I just didn't have the ability or time to do.
Although, I spent all my spare time working on it, I didn't have the
ingredients to make it happen. There are thousands of media outlets to contact
and they want details for each place and times and all the associated media.
All I have is a website. It was discouraging to me to see how difficult it was
to put something like this together. I stagnated and became depressed. I didn't
realize the way to make this happen. One morning I sat typing a reply to an
email and all of a sudden my vision was made complete. I needed to ask for
help. Your help. World Peace Day, November 17th, is what, I hope, will empower
us to make our leaders, and our future generations, take notice. You think mass
demonstrations don't work? If they don't, then how would the now cliche
"Million woman/man/ march" become part of our everyday language? The problem
with trying to congregate millions of people into one place is that it leaves
out so many. I think the path to peace begins at home. It's an inner decision
that each individual has to make. But a mass demonstration IS neccessary. So
we're having a mass demonstration. The location is wherever you happen to be.
This is the only way to really make terrorists, politicians and world leaders
take notice that THE PEOPLE want peace! Military might and aggression have been
proven time and time again not to do anything but create a world of fear,
violence, and destruction. Weapons of mass destruction are a deterrent, but the
only way to real peace is through negotiation and resolving the issues that
created the problems. By gathering together we provide the pebble to start the
avalanche towards peace.
First of all I want to make sure everyone
realizes this starts with you. There is no "organization" or corporation that
is coordinating this. There is no official logo, no corporate sponsorship, no
donations or money needed. It is a grassroots effort to make a change for
yourself. If you are in business and want to use it to make money by selling
T-shirts or trinkets, it makes no difference to me. As long as people don't
think that the money gained comes back to peaceday.org, because to all who want
to know, it doesn't. Use your conscience as your guide. I want people to know
that money is really not needed for this grassroots effort, it is a display of
people wanting to live in a world of peace. The only instructions
are,.....pray, focus, or meditate for peace. There is no set time table, it
will be all 24 hours of November 17. There is no printed media other than
this web page, you are free to create your own. Find a few people WHEREVER YOU
ARE, take a few moments to hold hands in a circle and meditate together for
peace for a few minutes. Please read on because there is something to reinforce
what you will do on November 17th.
A couple of years backSusan Parker and I started corresponding over the web. I always admired her project because it had results that people could see and feel. I had the pleasure of visiting a Sadako Peace Park located on the grounds of the "La Casa Maria" in Santa Barbara, California. Hanging from the trees and bushes were little paper cranes that had been left by people who had visited the park. In the center was a huge eucalyptus tree. It made such an impression on me that I decided that some day I would make a paper crane project of my own.
As I sat thinking about the current aggression in the Middle East and here we go again killing the poor people that have to put up with leaders who are making all these poor choices, I suddenly realized what we all can do! We can fold some paper cranes and send them to as many leaders we can find the addresses for. Lets make an impression on our leaders, no, lets shock our leaders into seeing that we all want to live in peace. I am hoping that our leaders get so many folded paper cranes that they will complain to me to take down my site and end this paper crane deluge.It can only be done with your help. They say if you fold 1000 cranes you will be granted your wish. Lets fold a couple of million cranes and wish for world peace. Ahh but lets also start to hang cranes around in the public. Lets make it so people will see them in shopping malls and in parks, hang a crane in your office. You get the idea. Lets make it so everyone gets a chance to be reminded about peace. Inform your friends about it so when people ask about all the cranes they keep seeing, someone will be able to explain it to them and get them started folding their own. It will be interesting to see how long it will be before I start seeing cranes that other people have folded. Hanging from street signs as I am driving around. Just put them in visible locations. Like the fence in front of the White House ;)
Thank-you for helping, Peace and
love,
Peaceguy
Here is what to do.
Take some junk mail, because you were going to throw it away anyway.
Fold it into
paper cranes.
Either send them to a world leader of your
choice,....or
Hang them in a place that is visible to the public.
Thanks tohttp://www.sadako.org/for the instructions!
Or mail to the leaders of your choice.
President Barack H. Obama
The Whitehouse
Washington, DC 20500
tel 1-202-456-1414
fax 1-202-456-2461
president@whitehouse.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/
Find your elected Congressperson
Find your Senator
This place
is a great online source of World Leader's email addresses.
ADDRESS
DIRECTORY FOR THE POLITICIANS OF THE WORLD
These are consulates addresses for many countries.
http://www.state.gov/www/travel/consular_offices/fco_index.html
Secretary-General Ban-Ki-moon
Office of the
Secretary-General
United Nations
New York, NY 10017
The
Carter Center Updates on world Conflicts is a good place to start looking
for places to send cranes.
If you don't want to fold cranes please place
this ribbon on your webpage, or print it and place it where people can see you
are wishing for peace. If you do, can you please link it back to this
website.
On November 17, drive with your headlights on as a public demonstration for peace, and think about peace as you go through your daily activities. Fold some cranes and place them around your city.
May Peace Prevail On
Earth,
Peaceguy
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