Jersey Murmurs

Prayer Flags are a physical representation of our PRAYERS and PETITIONS

• The people of Tibet believe that when prayer flags are wafted by the wind, prayers ascend on their behalf
• Sir Isaac Newton believed that prayers
  went to heaven by VIBRATION
• Movement is prayer

JerseyMurmurs designs and sells modern prayer flags
to repeat your prayers and petitions

TIE your flag to a pole or a fence or a porch railing outside or DRAPE it over a heating vent or near a fan inside or HANG it on your wall where you can lay eyes on it frequently.

Let the flag and your fervent thoughts do their work — like the beating of your heart — to send your petitions out to the universe

Flags that are out in the elements will naturally fray, fade, and degrade — evidence that your petitions are moving on . . .

Purchase prayer flags at my etsy store: JerseyMurmurs

It's the mind that moves

Two monks were watching a flag fluttering in the wind.
One said, "it's the wind that moves."
The other said, "I disagree, it's the flag that moves."
But a Zen patriarch standing nearby, said, "it's not the wind, nor the flag ... it's the mind that moves."

~ from The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

Seek Beauty, a prayer flag

• beauty which can be seen with the eye ...
• beauty which can be seen by the mind ...
• beauty which can be seen by the spirit ...

In 1910 Dr. Luther and Charlotte Gulick founded the Camp Fire Girls. These words are taken from the Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls. Each girl who joined the organization worked to create her own individual symbol based on things that spoke to her. The handbook was an encouragement "to put into words or drawings the things we cherish, for when it is done it helps us to hold to those things which are best in us."

Echoing the goals of the Camp Fire Girls, Dr. Gulick wrote: "Brush away from the everyday activities of the world and dull gray with which the oil and smoke of this machine age have covered us, to reveal the beauty, romance and adventure of all the common things of life."

Touch the Whole World, a prayer flag

Most of our planet earth is made up of water. And the waterways of our earth provide a route to other lands, to other cultures and to other people. Croatian sailors have a saying: Put your finger in the sea and you touch the whole world. I think of this flag as a prayer for our planet and all the people in the world -- in some small way we are all connected.

Sláinte, a prayer flag

One of a series, see also ŽIVILI, PROST, SALUD!

Sláinte. A Gaëlic word. Health; soundness; a healing virtue; salvation; a health or toast. "Sláinte, and sláinte, and sláinte agin."

The most common and familiar words

"Now, all words are pegs to hang ideas on; and as a wooden peg in the hall, on which the father and the grandfather were accustomed to hang the coat and the hat, is to the child's eye more beautiful than the most exquisite picture that could be hung on the wall, so the most common and familiar words are more powerful than any abstract and arbitrary ones." from Freedom and War, Discourses by Henry Ward Beecher

What words tell the story of you and your family?

Anam Cara, a prayer flag

In his book Anam Cara, the Irish writer John O’Donohue writes: “The Celtic understanding of friendship finds its inspiration and culmination in the sublime notion of the anam cara. ‘Anam’ is the Gaelic word for soul; ‘cara’ is the word for friend. So ‘anam cara’ means soul friend. ... When you had an anam cara, your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way with the friend of your soul.”

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

~ George Santayana

Kindness, a prayer flag

Kindness. The quality of being considerate and humane. It may be a little thing, but doesn’t it just make the world and our daily lives so much better? How good does it make you feel when someone does you a small kindness? And when you can return a kindness?

This flag features a quote that Anna Laetitia Barbauld wrote in 1811: “That humble current of little kindnesses, which, though but a creeping streamlet, incessantly flows; although it glides in silent secrecy within the domestic walls, and along the walks of private life, and makes neither appearance nor noise in the world; pours, in the end, a more copious tribute into the store of human human comfort and felicity, than any sudden and transient flood of detached bounty, however ample, that may rush into it with a mighty sound.”

Thrive, a prayer flag

To grow vigorously. To make steady progress. To fly high and flourish. Sometimes it takes a little care and cultivation. 

“If I thrive well, I’ll visit thee again.” (Shakespeare)