Neale Donald
Walsch, Marianne Williamson, James Twyman, James Redfield
and Doreen Virtue
are sending
out this prayerful response to the recent terrorist
attacks on the US. They request that each of us join
with all the millions around the world praying for peace,
and for those who have been injured or killed.
Please send
this out to as many people as you can so we can keep
our minds focused on peace, not fear.
September
11, 2001
Dear friends
around the world:
It took
God seven days to create the world. We now ask you to
join us in spending the next seven days recreating it.
Wherever you are, join us for the next seven days "FEELING"
this new world and praying it into existence. At 9pm
EST, 6pm west coast time, from September 11 to 18, simply
feel the presence of millions around the world who are
praying for all violence to cease. Spend ten minutes
in silence each night knowing that we are creating a
new world based upon the laws of compassion and peace.
Once again, please pass this on to everyone you know.
The events
of this day cause every thinking person to stop their
daily lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder
deeply the larger questions of life. We search again
for not only the meaning of life, but the purpose of
our individual and collective experience as we have
created it-and we look earnestly for ways in which we
might recreate ourselves anew as a human species, so
that we will never treat each other this way again.
The hour
has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level
our most extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.
There are
two possible responses to what has occurred today. The
first comes from love, the second from fear. If we come
from fear we may panic and do things - as individuals
and as nations-that could only cause further damage.
If we come from love we will find refuge and strength,
even as we provide it to others.
This is
the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching.
What you teach at this time, through your every word
and action right now, will remain as indelible lessons
in the hearts and minds of those whose lives you touch,
both now, and for years to come.
We will
set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In
this moment. Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but
to pinpoint cause. Unless we take this time to look
at the cause of our experience, we will never remove
ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead,
we will forever live in fear of retribution from those
within the human family who feel aggrieved, and, likewise,
seek retribution from them.
To us the
reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic
human lessons. We have not remembered the most basic
human truths. We have not understood the most basic
spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not been listening
to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves
do ungodly things.
The message
we hear from all sources of truth is clear: We are all
one. That is a message the human race has largely ignored.
Forgetting this truth is the only cause of hatred and
war, and the way to remember is simple: Love, in this
and every moment. If we could love even those who have
attacked us, and seek to understand why they have done
so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet
negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with
attack, what then will be the outcome?
These are
the questions that are placed before the human race
today. They are questions that we have failed to answer
for thousands of years. Failure to answer them now could
eliminate the need to answer them at all.
If we want
the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be
experienced by our children and our children's children,
we will have to become spiritual activists right here,
right now, and cause that to happen. We must choose
to be at cause in the matter.
So, talk
with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice,
for insight and for strength and for inner peace and
for deep wisdom. Ask God on this day to show us how
to show up in the world in a way that will cause the
world itself to change. And join all those people around
the world who are praying right now, adding your Light
to the Light that dispells all fear.
That is
the challenge that is placed before every thinking person
today. Today the human soul asks the question: What
can I do to preserve the beauty and the wonder of our
world and to eliminate the anger and hatred - and the
disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of
the world which I touch? Please seek to answer that
question today, with all the magnificence that is You.
What can
you do TODAY to love...this very moment?
A central
teaching in most spiritual traditions is: What you wish
to experience, provide for another. Look to see, now,
what it is you wish to experience - in your own life,
and in the world. Then see if there is another for whom
you may be the source of that. If you wish to experience
peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know
that you are safe, cause another to know that they are
safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible
things, help another to better understand. If you wish
to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the
sadness or anger of another.
Those others
are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for
guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding,
and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are
looking to you for love.
We love
you, and we send you our deepest thoughts of peace.
Neale,
Marianne, James, James and Doreen