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Hello partners, last night I was talking with a good friend, a wonderful woman, the kind of person that change us forever... Thanks "S...", I meant to you...

We were talking about everything and nothing at the same time; in a moment of this conversation I send her a message "Prayer for tolerance" and she said this prayer should be written in all places.

So, I´m here, writing the message in a blog, I hope you read it and comment about it.

Have a wonderful week my partners, I´ve been waiting for your replies.

Prayer for Tolerance

No longer do I address men, 

but you, God of all beings, of all words, of all times:

if it is permitted  to feeble creatures,

lost in tne immensity of the universe, 

to dare ask anything of You,

Who are the Bestower of all things,

Whose decrees are unchanging as they are eternal.

Grant that You regard with pity the errors woven into our nature,

that they do not bring about our ruin.

For you did not give us hearts that we should hate,

or hands that we should slaughter each other,

Enable us to help one another

and to bear together the burden of a painful and fleeting life

Help us to look beyond the tiny differences in the clothing that covers our frail bodies

in our inadequate languages,

in our ridiculous customs and imperfetc laws,

in our irrational prejudices,

in our various conditions,

so disproportionate in our eyes and so equal in yours.

Ensure that all of the minute distinctions

that set apart thsese atoms called man

will no be longer ocassion for hatred or persecution.

Enable us to remember that we are brothers and sisters.

And let us hold those who exercise tyranny over souls

in the same horror as the brigands

who ravage by force the fruits of industry and peaceful labor.

Let wars come to an end,

let us hate our brethren no more.

And let us use the brief moment of our existence

to praise at once, in a thousand different tongues,

from Siam to California,

Your goodness that has granted this moment to us.

by Voltaire.