UNIVERSAL REFLECTIONS

UNIVERSAL REFLECTIONS

In striving to recognize the primacy of Fire and Light.

I feel kinship with my Zoroastrian sisters and brothers.

In striving to respect the Ten Commandments,

I feel kinship with my Jewish sisters and brothers.

In striving to be kind to neighbor and the needy,

I feel kinship with my Christian sisters and brothers.

In striving to be compassionate to creatures great and small,

I feel kinship with my Buddhist and Jaina sisters and brothers.

In striving to surrender myself completely to the Divine,

I feel kinship with my Muslim sisters and brothers.

In the recognition that religious wisdom flows from the Masters,

I feel kinship with my Sikh sisters and brothers.

In the recognition that serving fellow humans should be the goal of all religions,

I feel kinship with my Bahai sisters and brothers.

In my reverence for plants and trees, for lakes and mountains,

I feel kinship with my Native American sisters and brothers. 

In my respect for those who see the world only as natural phenomena arising from physical laws,

I feel kinship with my religious naturalist sisters and brothers

In feeling that all these and more are all paths to the same Unfathomable Mystery,

I feel kinship with my Hindu sisters and brothers.

In my love and laughter, joy and pain,

I feel kinship with all my fellow humans.

In my need for nourishment and instinct to live on,

I feel kinship with all beings on the planet.

In my spiritual ecstasy with this wondrous world,

I feel kinship with the Cosmic Whole.

Composed at the Cape of Good Hope, SA

Inspired by the Parliament of the World’s Religions (Capetown)

Dec. 1999