- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco (7 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006066875X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060668754
- Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 14 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,273,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Inspiration from leaders and visionaries around the world.
As the year 2,000 approaches, the longing for hope is all around us – hope that the millennium will usher in a new era of peace, justice and healing. This unique collection expresses and celebrates the myriad variations of that hope. Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon have collected hundreds of millennial wishes and blessings – the majority of which were written specially for this volume – from a diverse group of distinguished international contributors. Challenging us to make the hard choices that can bring true understanding and reconciliation, the Dalai Lam, Desmond Tutu, Thomas Moore, Elie Wiesel, Marianne Williamson, Jack Canfield, Vaclav Havel, Gloria Steinman, and many other share their visions of a better future.
Organized around timeless themes – from the end of war and ideal of justice to personal empowerment and the promise of youth – this book is an inspiring gift to everyone who has faith in the future.
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Inspiration from leaders and visionaries around the world.
• Includes more than 250 selections of mostly original material by prominent spiritual teachers, writers and activists from around the world.
• Editors have a strong track of high-quality material, including the bestselling 'Earth Prayers'.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
This collection proves there is hope for the future!
9 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback
People today are recognizing the need and the benefits of incorporating more prayer and devotion into their everyday lives. This book, along with the editor's previous works, Earth Prayers and Life Prayers provides people with a multicultural array of poems, prayers, chants, blessings, and other types of inspiration to further enrich your life.
This collection focuses primarily on the coming millennium. The editors actually sent out a call to others to contribute their thoughts to this volume. So, unlike previous works, this collection is focused mainly on the words of people living today, whereas the other volumes, contained wisdom from the past as well as the present.
What makes this book even more precious, is that world leaders such as Desmond TuTu and Vaclav Havel, stand here side by side with other great thinkers, poets, religious leaders and visionaries. But also tapped, are relative unknowns, nuns, alternative communities, community leaders, singers/songwriters, poets, teachers, etc. providing a huge melting-pot of profound thoughts and wisdom.
These reflections are subdivided in categories such as: hope for the future, opening hearts, this moment in time, creating peaceful communities, one about children, the earth, solidarity and justice, politics, economics and morality, parables of our time, and we the people.
Instead of dwelling on decay and apocalypse, why not see the hope the future has to offer an enlightened civilization? This book is a breath of fresh air amidst the glut of negative material out there concerning the turn of the century. To the editors...thank you for providing us with continued inspirations.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Prayers for Many Ages - For the World, and for Daily Life
7 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
I have found this a wonderful collection to use at mealtime with adults in our family, or friends; but I have also found that many of the prayers speak to our teenage son. They are oriented toward hopes for healing in the world, but also contain prayers to sustain us in our daily living as we seek to be of use. I plan to use the book in my Unitarian Universalist ministry this year, both with adults and with young people. Many of the prayers are very moving.
Rev. Dr. Barbara Whittaker-Johns, Arlington, MA 9/7/05
Rev. Dr. Barbara Whittaker-Johns, Arlington, MA 9/7/05
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5 Starts to the Millineth Power!!
9 May 1999
Format:Paperback
This Project was the most thoughtful, insightful, motivating peace of art I've come across in a long time. I was almsot ready to give up hope being tangled in this world wide Web, but I'm relieved to see a brighter, more hopeful, and I'm looking for ward to this Celebration of Resolution soon. THANK YOU's both!! Love Spring~
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