Worldwide Blessing Generator

In an effort to balance the negativity of the world, we have created the WBG. It mixes blessings and prayers from all world religions and gives a random hybrid of spiritual goodness. We think of this as a digital version of a Tibetan prayer-wheel a "device for spreading spiritual blessings and well being." Our intent is to mix the wisdom of all cultures to create blessings in a spirit of religious tolerance that applies to all faiths and are truly worldwide in origin.

The first three lines are taken from various sources as diverse as "The Irish Blessing", Buddhist writings, The Bible and African prayers. See the sources link for a complete listing. The fourth line is inspired by "Daily Necessities -Tips & pointers for building a spiritual life from scratch" from Awakening The Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das. It is a random combination of two words from his list of several dozen positive actions to take. It is used again as the subtitle of this page. The single line of benediction at the bottom is a translation of Peace, Love, Om or Amen in various languages.

Most of the photos are all shared by the photographers who have posted them on Flickr. A click on a photo will take you to the photographer's web page with credits and full picture info. Each photo is used under the Creative Commons License, please notify us if there are any unforeseen problems. Other photos have been sent to us and have links with each photographer's information. In order to give a good mix on every page, the right-hand photo depicts a symbol from Western religions, the center is from Eastern and the left is from a mix of world religions & faiths.

The source for "May peace prevail on earth" in many languages is the website Prayer for World Peace in various languages. To find out which language the quote is in, drag it to your desktop,the language is the name of the file.

The Worldwide Blessing Generator uses Javascript to pick each line and three photos at random and can make a total of over a trillion different sets. Some surprising combinations are made. Please let us know if any of them have helped you.

Does every blessing make the world a better place? Well, it can't hurt.

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