And please put the attention on the breath for just a few moments.
With your next in-breath,
Breathe in peace from wherever you think peace exists.
In the air around you,
In the trees outside,
In the night sky,
In the clouds,
In the stars.
Breathe it in.
Fill yourself with peace from head to toe.
And feel it surging through you,
Giving you a solid foundation within.
And on your next out-breath,
Breathe out love,
The warmth from your heart,
And surround yourself with that.
Keep on breathing in peace,
Filling yourself with it,
And breathing out love,
And surrounding yourself with it.
And on your next out-breath,
Breathe out love,
The warmth from your heart,
And surrounding yourself with it.
And on your next out-breath,
Breathe out love,
The warmth from your heart,
And surrounding yourself with it.
Now put your attention on the person nearest you in this hall,
And breathe out love and peace to that person.
Filling him or her with peace,
And surrounding him or her with love.
Giving the greatest gift that we have to give,
Love and peace.
And we can only give it if we carry it within.
Now we think of our parents.
And on each breath that goes out,
We breathe out love and peace to them.
We fill them with it,
We surround them with it.
We give them the whole of our heart,
And we can see that our own heart does not become diminished by that.
On the contrary,
It gains more love and peace the more we give it away.
Now we think of our parents.
And on each breath that goes out,
We breathe out love and peace to them.
And we think of those people who are nearest and dearest to us,
And those that we might live with.
We breathe out love and peace to them.
And we breathe it out so that they can breathe it in.
And they can feel the love that we manifest for them.
And they can feel the peace that is surrounding them and filling them.
And we don't expect any return for this gift.
And once more,
We breathe in peace into ourselves,
From the air around us,
From the night sky above us,
From the trees,
From the flowers,
From the clouds,
From anything that we feel contains peace,
And we fill ourselves with it.
And once more,
We breathe out love from the warmth of our heart,
And we surround ourselves with it,
So that we have sufficient to give it away as gifts.
To people we meet.
And we think of our friends and acquaintances and relatives.
And for each one,
We breathe out love and peace,
And see that they can actually absorb that and become joyful.
We think of the people whom we meet in our everyday life.
Those that are our almost constant companions in everyday living.
Neighbors,
People at work,
People in the shops that I frequent,
People in our neighborhood,
Patients,
Anyone that comes to mind,
That is part of our daily living.
We breathe out love and peace to each one of them,
Filling them with peace,
Surrounding them with love.
And we notice and become aware that they can actually connect to that,
Absorb it,
Take it in,
And be joyful,
Receiving this beautiful gift.
Thank you.
And we think of a difficult person in our life,
Or someone we are totally indifferent towards,
Or someone who finds us difficult.
And just as we continue breathing,
And just as our breath goes in and out,
As a natural way of being,
So we breathe out love and peace to the difficult person.
And all the difficulties float away.
Love and peace remains.
And we have that inner connection to even the difficult person,
Knowing them in a different way.
And as we continue breathing,
We breathe out love and peace to people near and far.
Nothing else enters our mind except doing that.
And first,
We breathe out love and peace to everyone assembled here.
And the whole atmosphere around us is imbued with love and peace.
And then we include all the people at Green Gorge.
And the air all around us,
Amongst the trees and the houses,
Contains love and peace.
And then we go further afield,
As far as the strength of our hearts will allow.
And we keep on breathing out love and peace,
So that anyone that we can touch has access to it.
We go to the people we know,
Those we have seen,
We have heard about,
And those that we assume are there.
And we breathe out love and peace so that the atmosphere,
As far as we can reach,
Contains nothing but love and peace.
We breathe out love and peace to nature around us,
The trees,
The flowers,
The vegetables,
Bushes,
The grass,
The pathways.
All can be in that atmosphere of love and peace.
We breathe out love and peace to all the animals that may be around here.
Birds,
Insects,
Worms,
Caterpillars,
Raccoons,
All the animals we can think of.
They too can then live in an atmosphere of love and peace.
And now we breathe out love and peace to the night sky above us,
To the moon and the stars and the clouds.
And there's nothing left in the universe except love and peace.
And we put our attention back on ourselves,
And we breathe in peace and fill ourselves with that.
And we breathe out love and surround ourselves with that.
And we recognize the strength and the security and the protection that we have when we feel filled with peace and surrounded by love.
And may people everywhere cultivate love and peace in their hearts.
