World Prayers - Prayer Archive (prayers from all traditions)

<body bgcolor="#FFFCF7" text="#000000" link="#993300" alink="#CC9900" vlink="#336666">  <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/javascripts/css_sniffer.js"></script>  <table border="0" width="99%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr>  <td width="12%" align="center" valign="top"> <table border="0" width="20" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td> </td></tr> </table></td>  <td align="left" valign="top" width="75%"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">  <tr> <td height="30" align="center" valign="top">  <table border="0" width="380" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td> </td></tr> </table></td> </tr>  <tr> <td align="center" valign="top" height="50"><h1>World Prayers - Prayer Archive<br>(prayers of meditation, prayers of invocation, prayers of celebration, prayers of adoration, prayers from all world traditions)</h1> <h2>Subject: Prayers - Prayer - Praying - Pray</h1></td> </tr>  <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle"> <p><span class="title">Multi-Cultural Prayer Archive.</span>   The purpose of this website is to gather the great prayers written by the spiritual visionaries of our planet into an online database representing all life affirming traditions. Many of these prayers have been used for hundreds if not thousands of years. Others are from spiritual contemporaries in today's intricate global fabric. Though these sacred verses arise from divergent paths, voices, languages, cultures and heritages, they all carry within them the same burning flame - the same impassioned love for life and the divine mysteries.</p> <p><span class="title">Guiding Principle.</span>   The World Prayers archive attempts to be representative of all life affirming faiths and spiritual practices without preference to any one. It is our goal to make these great words available to everyone for study and appreciation. The prayers have been intuitively divided into four categories for the purpose of organization and navigation.</p> <h3 align="left">Prayer Categories.</h3> <ul type="disc"> <li><b><a href="archive/index/adorations_index.html">ADORATIONS</a></b><br> <span class="smallgrey">Prayers of devotion, prayers of surrender, prayers of love, prayers of praise and prayers of offering.</span><br></li> <li><b><a href="archive/index/celebrations_index.html">CELEBRATIONS</a></b><br> <span class="smallgrey">Prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of initiation, prayers of affirmation and prayers of blessing.</span><br></li> <li><b><a href="archive/index/invocations_index.html">INVOCATIONS</a></b><br> <span class="smallgrey">Prayers of petition, prayers of supplication, prayers of calling forth and prayers of healing.</span><br></li> <li><b><a href="archive/index/meditations_index.html">MEDITATIONS</a></b><br> <span class="smallgrey">Prayers of reflection, prayers of contemplation, prayers of being and prayers of teaching.</span></li> </ul> <p><span class="title">Instructions.</span>   Clicking on any of the four category links surrounding the borders of the main browser window will return a RANDOM prayer from the chosen category. You may navigate through the prayers in this spontaneous and casual way or you may <a href="archive/search/keywords.html">SEARCH</a> the collection by religion, author, keyword or phrase. The prayer <a href="archive/index/prayer_index.html">INDEX</a> allows you to easily browse through the prayers by category or religious tradition.</p> <p>You may also <a href="archive/suggest/suggest_a_prayer.html">SUGGEST</a> a prayer for the archive by using the link provided below. You can determine whether or not a prayer is already in the collection by using the search (by phrase) option. If you do not find it, please submit it for addition. We feel that the larger and more diversified the collection, the more true to our common nature.</p> <p><span class="title">Prayer Wheel.</span>   For a quick inspiration, try out the <a href="prayerwheel/index.html" target="_blank">World Prayers - Prayer Wheel</a>.</p> <p><span class="title">Copyrights.</span>   © 1999. The World Prayers Project. All rights Reserved.</p> <p>The World Prayers Project reserves all rights to the World Prayers website and its contents but does not hold the copyrights on any of the prayers within the collection.</p> <p>As a non-profit, educational public archive, we are making every effort to collect only prayers that are within the public domain or those for which we have received permission to publish. If we have inadvertently used a prayer which is copyright protected and for which we do not have permission to quote, please advise us of our mistake so that we may work to correct it.</p> <p><span class="title">Credits.</span>   We offer a special thanks to everyone who has helped in the creation, support and encouragement of this website. And our deepest gratitude goes to the many sources and inspirations of these remarkable prayers.</p> <hr> <h1 align="center">The World Prayers Project</h1> <p><span class="title">Nonprofit Corporation.</span>   The World Prayers Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation registered in Santa Cruz, California, USA.</p> <p><span class="title">Statement of Purpose.</span>   The mission of The World Prayers Project is to improve human relations by celebrating the many forms of prayer and honoring the benefits of spiritual, cultural and natural diversity.</p> <p>The World Prayers Project (WPP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, educational, public service organization whose founding objective is to gather and present historic and contemporary World Prayers in a unified, multifaith archive on the Internet.</p> <p>As the global community draws closer together, it is increasingly essential to resolve cultural conflicts and misunderstandings and to more fully appreciate the great wisdom, beauty and intelligence found in the diversity of world traditions. Our organization is committed to shape this prayer collective into an educational and inspirational resource for the human family. All life affirming spiritual, cultural and ethnic traditions are invited to participate.</p> <p>Thousands of prayers a day are being sent across the digital network from our website to people visiting from over a hundred nations. As the Internet and its supporting technologies become available to more and more people throughout the world, so will our sphere of positive influence expand.</p> <p class="title">It is our intent to actively:</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Preserve an historical anthology of World Prayers in a global database.</li> <li>Provide a unbiased educational resource for comparative studies.</li> <li>Inspire cross cultural appreciation & understanding.</li> <li>Promote interfaith dialogue & religious tolerance.</li> <li>Urge international cooperation for peaceful solutions.</li> <li>Affirm the right to freedom of belief for all people.</li> <li>Provide a free inspirational resource for those in need.</li> <li>Explore the use of Internet technology for global benefit.</li> <li>Spread a field of positive energy around the world.</li> <li>Encourage the expressions of love, compassion, mercy and joy.</li> </ul> <p><span class="title">Long Term Plans:</span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li>To increase the size of the prayer archive 20 fold.</li> <li>To organize a complete bibliography of the prayers & sources.</li> <li>To translate the prayer archive into the primary world languages.</li> </ul> <p><span class="title">Organization.</span>   The World Prayers Project was organized in June 2001 under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for charitable purposes.</p> <p><span class="title">Board of Directors.</span>   As host of The World Prayers Project, the Board of Directors will assure that no preference be assumed for one tradition over another and that the archive will remain balanced in content and fair in presentation. The board will maintain the World Prayers archive in an advertisement-free environment on the Internet, available without cost to the world public.   <a href="archive/about/who/directors.html">Current Directors</a></p> <p><span class="title">Advisory Council.</span>   The World Prayers Project shall be guided by a qualified board of advisors made up of leaders, representatives, clergy, clerics, scholars, teachers and students from spiritual and cultural traditions around the world. The members of the Advisory Council provide credibility and assistance in the respectful and appropriate gathering and presentation of prayer content.   <a href="archive/about/who/advisors.html">Our Advisors</a></p> <p><span class="title">Public Support.</span>   If you would like to help in the ongoing development of this prayer project, please do so by making a tax deductible contribution. Donations from the public are essential to sustaining World Prayers.   <a href="archive/about/support/donations.html">Find Out How</a></p> <p><i>It is our feeling that the success of this prayer project will ultimately depend upon the efforts of those who come to help.</i></p> <br>  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle">  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#336666"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle">  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p class="title"><span class="redbold">PLEASE NOTE ...</span></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="400"> <tr> <td width="25"> </td> <td width="375"> <p>The World Prayers website has been built to take advantage of browser frames. If you are viewing this page it means that your browser does not support frames. 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