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This is a prayer box necklace a dear friend made, and gave to me. Inside is a stone that one of the autistic children she used to work with, gave her. She can no longer work with them, due to developing RSD from an injury she recieved when one of the children slammed her hand in the door. Working with those kids was her life, and it is tearing her apart inside to not be able to do so any longer. She is talking about doing volunteer work with them, even though another similar injury is very likely. Every day I say a prayer for her, that the doctors will find something to ease her constant physical and emotional pain.
The fruit of silence is prayer
the fruit of prayer is faith
the fruit of faith is love
the fruit of love is service
the fruit of service is peace.
(Mother Teresa)
This is our new prayer card. I'm really happy with how it turned out. The photographer did a great job and the designer built that up in a nice minimal, but attractive way.
The smell of oil was overpowering, it was everywhere, on the floor, in the air... and right in the center of it all were there 'Diyas'... light seemed to have a strange aura in those closed surroundings. It seems to be more radiant, it seemed to flicker less, for some reason, it looked like it wanted an outlet to show to the world how bright life really is. But for some, the oil would only lasted that long...
A dance of lights
Only the moths were missing
We watched with awe
As each flame flickered to a different tune
This is first of three shots I took while in a boat, on Clear Lake, during 4th of July celebration. The trails of light are actually boats.
While visiting a slum community, Southern Cross personnel prays for a Southeast Asian man who is covered in tattoos. Because the man was tattooed with non-sterile equipment, many of the tattoos are infected.
Photo by Kelvin Joseph
A man silently recites Buddhist prayers as his fingers count the prayer beads in his hands. The photo was taken with the camera hand-held at ISO1600 during night time. The Shwe Dagon can be very lively during the full moon periods, unfortunately I arrived a little over a week after the previous full moon.
After the alms rounds, the morning dhamma talk, with prayers, is conducted outdoors.
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Eid Prayer held at Coimbatore on 09-08-2013. jamaateislami Hind Organised for this prayer. more than 12000 believers attended this prayer.
Knitting a prayer shawl at Polvenna. The shawl is for a swap the location is very peaceful overlooking Talland Bay in Cornwall
It's tough riding when you have to resort to prayer to make it a cross a busy Tel Aviv intersection.
China aws filled with cultural practices that were so different from what we are used to in the United States. One example is the religious practice of hanging prayer cards at the base of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The prayer cards are super simple, yet their simpleness gives them a kind of beauty as they strecth through the tunnel.
Accession number: 1253.65
Place made: Tibet
Date made: Unknown
Materials used: Leather, wood
A prayer wheel of leather with wooden handle (spinning weight missing). The handheld prayer wheel (mani lag 'khor) has a cylindrical, body mounted on a metal shaft or pin set into a wooden or metal handle that turns on a circular bearing commonly made of Turbinella (conch) shell. The cylinder itself is affixed with a cord or chain terminating in a small weight – missing in this example – allowing it to be spun by a slight rotation of the wrist. The weighted chain, known as a “governor” in Western technology, stabilizes the wheel and keeps it spinning with less input from the practitioner than would otherwise be the case. When the prayer wheel is spun in prayer, the mantras inside become potent with the person's intent, allowing the practitioner to accumulate wisdom and merit.
Prayer, which started as a simple commitment to Morning Prayer and weekly evening apartment-led prayer, has become a central agent of communion for our neighborhood, with multiple evenings of prayer and expressed interest in opening up more space for prayer in the near future. -- Zach Bond, student resident
2006.09.17@Taipei
Friends who just came back from Tibet give me a Tibet Prayer Wheel, it has six Tibet texts on the wheel, I believe its "Six Syllable Mantra"(Om Mani Padme Hum). It should turn the wheel clockwise to release the power inherent in the texts and prayers. . Actually there is a roll of paper print the same texts hide in the wheel. If you turn it more than several month, the roll of paper may hard like stone and become the one part of your new prayer necklace.
(I wasn't actually attending the protest, before anybody wonders. It was just between me and the National Gallery.)
The Church of Agios Dimitrios in Thessaloniki is dedicated to the memory of Dimitrios, the martyr and patron saint of Thessaloniki.
It was first built in 313 AD but after the fire of 612 which completely destroyed it, the church was rebuilt and preserved until 1917 when it was completely destroyed during the Fire of 1917. Its restoration began in 1926 and was completed in 1948. After the fall of Constantinople and until 1912, the church had been converted into a mosque by the Ottomans.