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Joy, Oneness + more Americas...
Success is measured by the outer joy. Progress is measured By the inner peace. - Sri Chinmoy
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Rosarito, Mexico
A team of young volleyball players run with the Torch. The participation of enthusiastic
youth gives the World Harmony Run a boost of energy and hope for the future, as we try
to plant the seeds of health and harmony through all the communities that we visit.
— Atulya Berube, USA
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Puerto Rico
Children and adults alike enjoy holding the World Harmony Run Torch. Some make a quiet wish for Peace. Our international runners then take turns speaking to the children in their native languages, leaving the children to guess their nationalities. They don’t just use languages; children worldwide love it when Australians impersonate a jumping kangaroo, making it easy to guess their nation.
— Bansidhar Medeiros, Puerto Rico
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Tula, Mexico
30,000 children ran with the Peace Torch “Holding a torch which has passed through countless hands in many countries gives you a different view of the world, it brings us all together very powerfully.”
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Mexico
Runners usually go through two pairs of running shoes during a 100-day tour,
running from 10 to 15 miles a day.
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The Carribean
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Costa Rica
Pir Vilayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order in the West, held the World Harmony Run torch and offered a prayer for world peace and oneness.
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Maya Angelou, American writer, poet and activist
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Carly Simon, Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter
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Jon Bon Jovi, American rock musician and actor
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Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize laureate, lent her support to the World Harmony Run during a visit to New York
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Actor Michael York runs for peace in New York City
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Judith Light, Emmy Awardwinning actress and humanitarian
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Aretha Franklin, American singing and songwriting legend, known as “The Queen of Soul”
“I’d do this when I grow up — sure, to promote harmony. That’s a good thing.” — Mike, USA
Mexico
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In a spectacular launch for the 2010 World Harmony Run, runners carried the Torch to the Pacaya Volcano, lighting the Torch from the volcano’s molten lava.
Guatemala
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Columbia