Delegates Wives Prayer, Meditation on ocassion of Nobel Prize UN Peace-Keeping 1988 Oct 19

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On the occasion of the award of the

Nobel Peace Prize

to the United: Nations Peace-Keeping Operations

Mrs. Greta Zepos
Wife of the Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations

warmly invites you to join other delegates’ wives in

Prayer and Meditation for Peace

2:30 p. m., Wednesday, 19 Octo6er 1988
Jharna-Kala Gallery at Buchman Hall
432 East 91st Street (between First and York Aves.)
New York, New York

Below are some suggestions and comments by ember fo the Pece Meditation group at he UN, facilitator of the prayer and meditation section of the programme. They came from experience of practicing and sharing meditation and prayer techniques for 20 years.:

When I pray, I talk and God listens. When I meditate, God talks and I listen.

Aspiration is the only key for both prayer and meditation. Either we reach up to Him or He cares down to us.

To pray or meditate:

Try to focus all attention on the heart.

Try to direct the flow of divine Grace which you feel in your heart upward. It is like water. Each time you pray or meditate, feel that you are digging inside. Naturally, the all-nourishing water comes up, for it is being supplied constantly from its infinite source.

Real purity is an inner shrine, a constant remembrance, of the divine within us.

Outer discipline, as well as inner discipline, is required for real prayer.

If the prayer or meditation is too relaxed, it will have no focus, no energy, no abiding life.

Only if one has real intensity, will one get real joy.

During prayer one can form a sentence of a few words that will convince the aspiring mind.

You can write one of more words on your heart, then try to see it there.

You can repeatedly look at it or write it again and again.

When we pray, we sometimes act like beggars, but when we meditate we became princes. When we pray we ask to be given joy, love and peace. When we meditate we expand, spread our wings like a bird, trying to see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight. Sometimes it is easier to start with prayer and end with meditation.

What is the highest form of prayer/ meditation?

“‘Thy Will be done.” To ask for the capacity to please him I his own way.