By Ilchi Lee
2000
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders
in the General Assembly of the United Nations
I offer this prayer of peace
Not to any one god, nor to many gods.
Not to the Christian god.
Nor to the Jewish god.
Nor the Buddhist god.
Nor the Islamic god.
Not even to the indigenous gods of many nations.
But to the divinity within us all
That makes us all brothers and sisters.
To make us truly One Family
In the name of humanity.
I offer this prayer of peace
To the cosmic Oneness, that is our birthright.
Our privilege
And our strength
That should we let it shine fourth and show us the way,
Will guide us to the road of peace.
Not the Christian peace
Not the Jewish peace
Not the Islamic peace
Nor the Buddhist peace
Not the indigenous peace of many nations
But the human peace
That has a place in the hearts of all people,
To allow us to truly fulfill our divine potential
To become children of one humanity.
I offer this prayer of peace
That we may realize
The truth of our existence
That we may discover
The sanctity of our lives
And seek
The spirituality of our beings.
Please allow us to experience
With all our hearts and souls
The intimate connection to the divine
Which we all possess inside.
For our bodies are the temples of worship
And our souls are the altars
Upon which we shall stand tall
To live out the true meaning
Of our existence.
I offer this prayer of peace
To declare a revolution of the human spirit.
I wish to announce that
It is now time
For all of us to spiritually awaken
To enlightenment.
That the time for the enlightened few is ended
The age of elitist enlightenment has passed.
For how long shall we seek from prophets
To come down from mountaintops
And tell us what to do?
We all must become enlightened
To recognize our divinity
To raise our consciousness
And proclaim our independence
From blind reliance on long ago sages
And draw the answers from our own well
Of spiritual wisdom.
We must ourselves become the enlightened ones.
We must realize our Oneness.
I declare that we must all become Earth-Humans
Of the Earth
Not of any religion, nation or race
But of this earth, for this earth and by this earth
To create lasting peace
On earth.
I offer this prayer of peace
for the United Nations
In which we stand today
To lift itself from the quicksand of politics
And live out it’s distinctly spiritual goal
To eradicate the disease of war
And create an equitable and peaceful world.
Let us hope that the United Nations finds
The strength and the will
To speak on behalf of all people of the earth
And not just for a few privileged nations.
Let us wish upon the United Nations the wisdom
To become the beacon that we can all follow
To the promised land of love and peace.
I pray to thee
God of all gods
Divine Spirit that lives within us
And connects us in One Life
That you grant us the vision
To establish a Spiritual United Nations
To guide us into the next millennium.
I offer this prayer of peace
With all my fellow Earth-Human
For a lasting peace on earth.
