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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 89 – 3/15/2018

March 16, 2018 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

beware the ides of march or be aware of the middle of march… what i’m aware of is being in a moment, a long moment of great turning with the most powerful moon of the year happening in a matter of hours and giving us the opportunity to turn greatly and be the more beautiful world we already are…

When we look down on the Earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also… looks extremely fragile.

Ron Garan, NASA Astronaut

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

~ Carl Sagan ~

bathed in the phosphorescence of ocean’s vast space….

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 88 – 3/14/2018

March 15, 2018 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

this is rezestance

children of earth walking out

leading us to peace

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today is a day of compassion as students, teachers and parents across the land walk out of their classrooms to say enough is enough on the one month anniversary of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida…

“Today is an unprecedented day in the history of our nation, a day when our children all across this country are exhibiting the leadership, strength, and the courage that too many of our elected leaders lack in trying to stop gun violence in America. We need to listen to them. We need to support them. And we need to join with them in demanding that government live up to its responsibility to provide for the safety and protect the lives of its citizens — in our schools, in our public places, on our streets, and throughout our communities.”

~Dennis Kucinich ~

and from the woman for whom the school was named, the school where a movement was born the woman who nods in approval…

“Be a nuisance when it counts. Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action. Be depressed, discouraged, & disappointed at failure & the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption & bad politics — but never give up.”

~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 87 – 3/13/2018

March 14, 2018 Jo Beall1 Comment

born auspiciously on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, Professor Hawking also died auspiciously on the 30th anniversary of the day of Pi and on Albert Einstein’s birthday… i love this star going into the cosmos to travel into infinity in such synchronicity…

let us take this moment to listen to this freespirit…

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don’t just give up…

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything…

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 86 – 3/12/2018

March 13, 2018 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. ~ Marcel Proust ~

on this day of kej in the mayan calendar, we reflect on the spiritual path, the walking along the freedom road, the courting of liberation, enlightenment, awakening… we look to the east, the place of fire, creativity creating creation and awakening us to our true nature as light beings, free flowing waves of shimmering light…

“Once upon a time, I, Chuang-tzu, dreamed I was a butterfly , fluttering hither & thither….Suddenly, I was awakened….Now I don’t know whether I am a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly now dreaming I am a man.”

free at last, free at last having let go and surrendered into mystery…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 85 – 3/11/2018

March 12, 2018 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

for today’s image of showing you the astonishing light of your being, i share the energy of this sacred day of flow, honoring the peace pilgrimage we walk each moment and on a day such as this one, we begin in stillness where we dance our essence of love in a cosmic field of flow… waves of light vibrating, sparkling, radiating, expanding, dancing, connecting, bonding, awakening in great mystery’s web of shimmering light…

may we all take joy in surrendering and softening into the divine flow of the oceanic sky of being trusting in the implicate order where every moment is sacred, a rhythmic dance of grace…

namaste…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 84 – 3/10/2018

March 11, 2018 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

today is a day of soulitude, a day of listening to the wind and the rain… a day of radical presence, of being the new operating system programmed with a spacious consciousness of nowhere to go and nothing to do but simply wait patiently for the soul song to flow…

i’m in good company, my old dolphin guides, Adolpho and Adelphi, free and easy wanderers of the great beyond, come out to celebrate our ever widening circles of courageous souls letting go of small i identity to dissolve into the individuated large I AM Presence and to be open (organic presence empty now) to the cosmic flow of oceanic consciousness…

these wise sages of liminal space, guides at the threshold whisper words of grace… “re-member, it is the impeded stream that sings” and so i venture with them to the stillpoint to listen… here i see grandmother spider dancing creation and weaving a new web of life, carbon turned into crystals of light, a thousand dancing diamonds twinkling in the night, imbuing the all with powerful sight of the world being breathed into life again, unfolding mystery of the knowledge within… here in great silence we listen deeply to our one cosmic heart, dancing the love song we are called now to impart…

shanti, shanti, shantihi.

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 83 – 3/9/2018

March 10, 2018 Jo Beall1 Comment

another day to celebrate the moon of women’s herstory and to rise as a great wave across the cosmos celebrating the divine feminine in her quest for equality, freedom and harmony… coming together in sacred circle drawing down the energy of the new moon, we pause across the planet to gather in peace and be the rising tide singing our soul song… Let’s focus the healing power within our hearts on all of humanity and our beautiful planet.

Unify Heart Meditation

Let’s all hold hands. Let’s gently close our eyes and inhale together, slowing the breath. Bringing our attention to how our bodies are feeling right now in full acceptance of whatever is present. Notice where your body is touching the ground and bring your focus there. Begin feeling the pulsing energy of the Earth beneath us. The heartbeat of Mother Earth. With an inhale, breathe in gratitude and love for all that she gives us. Continuing to breathe, feel your heartbeat, your unique beautiful rhythm. Breathe deeply from your heart as you open to the sensation of love within you. Feel the pulsing energy of this love. Envision and feel this pulsing energy as a light glowing in your heart.

Breathing deeply, see and feel this light getting brighter until it fills your whole body and surrounds you. With your next exhale, think of someone you know who is having a difficult time in their life. Imagine that this person is right in front of you. While remaining connected with the love in your own heart, allow yourself to feel empathy for this person’s struggle as you breathe, honoring their journey. See the light in their heart as the same loving light that is within yours. As you offer your love and compassion to this person, feel the light in both of your hearts growing brighter together. Now, with an inhale, focus your attention back to your heart again. Feel the light grow brighter as you allow the love from your heart to nourish any parts of you that have been in pain.

Open to feeling compassion for yourself as you breathe the light of your love into the places where you have kept fear, grief, anger, stress, and insecurity. Open to feeling nourished by the love within. Offer yourself acknowledgment and respect for everything you are, how far you have come, and for the incredible beauty and power within you.

Take a deep breath and start to feel the woman to your right. This woman has her own struggles, pain, fears, and insecurities. Take a moment to feel empathy and great respect for this powerful woman beside you. While breathing into your heart, feel the power of the love in her heart. See and feel the light within her as it grows brighter, surrounding her. Feel the light within your heart and the light within her heart growing brighter together. Take a moment to feel the woman to your left. This woman has her own struggles, pain, fears, and insecurities. Take a moment to feel empathy and great respect for this powerful woman beside you. While breathing into our own heart, feel the power of the love in her heart. See and feel the light within her as it grows brighter, surrounding her. Feel the light within our heart and the light within her heart growing brighter together. Feel the love and light of every woman in the circle being amplified… Growing brighter… filling the whole room.

Envision in your life and community, women are interacting from a space of harmony, mutual support, celebration, acceptance, and upliftment. Feel in your heart, yourself and every woman feeling secure and happy in who she is and supported by our global sisterhood. Bring this intention to the light in your heart and with a deep breath imagine sending that light into the earth below you, like a seed being planted. Bring your hands to your heart and feel your heartbeat. Take a deep breath and gently open your eyes. When you are ready, stand in love for love and serve all our relations as an instrument of peace founde on justice, on cosmic balance and filled to overflowing with lovingkindness guided by love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 82 – 3/8/2018

March 9, 2018 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

little girls with dreams become women with vision

Happy International Women’s Be Bold for Change Day!

on this day and beyond, we pledge to:

help women and girls achieve their ambitions

challenge conscious and unconscious bias

call for gender-balanced leadership

value women’s and men’s contributions equally

create inclusive flexible cultures

challenge bias and inequality

campaign for peace

forge women’s advancement

celebrate women’s achievements

champion women’s education

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It has long been said that when 1000 women gather, heart consciousness, the divine human will be birthed. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama says that it will be women who transform the world…

today we rise as a great wave across the cosmos celebrating the divine feminine in her quest for equality, freedom and harmony… coming together in sacred circles drawing down the energy of the waning moon, we pause across the planet to gather in peace and be the rising tide singing our soul song… let’s focus the healing power within our hearts on all humanity…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 81 – 3/7/2018

March 8, 2018 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

Blessings from the Rainbow Trail

she who arrived attended by rainbows

under the fullness of the in between times moon

gifted with light’s radiance, like the sun she glows

with crystalline shafts reflecting the moon

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under the fullness of the in between times moon

veils are lifted revealing the all that there is

sky father dressed in rainbow robes

mirroring colors of earth mother below

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blowing sweet breath on the crystalline shafts

igniting combustible fiery light

she who arrived attended by rainbows

whispers creation into the dark night

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and in the morning’s returning light,

the cosmos is colored in waves of delight

by the one who arrived attended by rainbows

gifted with radiance, like the sun she glows

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many moons ago while sauntering along the oregon trail under the magical spell of the in between times moon, rainbow woman appeared in the sky promising of fortune’s smile returning to the land, cosmic order restored with the birth of a thousand dancing stars…

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Native American Prayer for Peace

Oh Great Spirit of our
Ancestors, I raise
my pipe to you.
To your messengers the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides
for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind
to each other so that they may grow
with peace of mind
Let us learn to share all good things that
you provide for us on this Earth.

The Prayer of Saint Frances

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred . . . let me sow love
Where there is injury . . . pardon
Where there is doubt . . . faith
Where there is despair . . .hope
Where there is darkness . . . light
where there is sadness . . .joy
O Divine Master,
grant that i may not so much seek
To be consoled . . .as to console
To be understood . . .as to understand,
To be loved . . . as to love
For it is in giving . . .that we receive…

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 80 – 3/6/2018

March 7, 2018 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

a day on the pilgrimage like all others of living the quest ion of what drumbeat are we dancing? what heartbeat are we meditating?, i give you, my co-heart pilgrims, poets on a journey, Rilke’s plea from Letters to a Young Poet to be patience, to live patiently with everything, loving all that is yet unresolved, for it is in the loving that sacred balance organically rises…

a day on the pilgrimage of being and doing the work, the play, the intention, the purpose of being who we are… light beings of divine love embodied through our one cosmic heart in an intricate web of interconnection…

thousandfold thanks…