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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 59 – 2/13/2018

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today is # self love day, a day….

i choose to be kind, gentle and patient with myself

i choose self-compassion

i choose self-love

please join me in this movement of our choosing this path with heart setting us free to be one sea of love energy…

2018 Self Love Poem
“You are SO Much More Than Enough”

by Shiloh Sophia McCloud

You Are So Much More Than Enough

You think you are not enough

and so that means what you do

is never enough. I think the story

“I am not enough” is a lie.

I am wondering

why we, intelligent, lovely, brave

souls that we are,

would go on believing a lie?

So today is a day for miracles

for shedding old stories

and I am wondering

who is ready to shed that one?

Ready. Set. Let’s Go.

And when you are done with that

you can join us in inventing a new story.

One where you choose yourself

right now right where you are

regardless of your circumstances.

One where we choose to tell the truth

about ourselves to ourselves

and to others.

The truth is: you are more wonderful than you can imagine and it is nothing short of a miracle that you were even born at this time on this planet to do your work no matter what that is. We have lived long enough thinking ‘not enough’ is a way of being. It’s not. Today that ends. A way of being is to love the sometimes fragile and broken and sometimes confused and still glorious self that you are. A way of being is to reinvent, with us, in this moment a story about who you are that you would love to tell and live. This is an invitation to unleash your own personal legend. To transform the critic into the almighty muse…

Thank you for joining in this global community of daring souls willing to gather those they love and share the message and medicine of self love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 58 – 2/12/2018

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yes, ambassadors of love, it all comes down to being love, period; for that field out beyond words is simply the frequency we vibrate in, the vast wave rolling through the cosmos… it’s also the pearl of the practice of the poetic peace pilgrimage which we are sauntering together, walking to the wholly land, making the archetypal shero journey to self...

here’s an old sherpa’s map, a guide for being love and coming home to the heart…

Smile (Start My Internal Love Engine) with every breath, with every step, in every              moment, recommit to love…

Honor the flame within the center of your being by breathing in through our one                   heart fanning the flame with loops of thank you, thank you, thank you…

Embrace Joy and all that comes as hospitable host, befriend and embrace                            everything, all our relations…

Reverence and stand for truth wholeheartedly welcoming wounds and the                             wounded – the treasure chest of wisdom…

Open in ever widening spirals to all that is with a courage, a heart broken wide                  open for light to stream in…

Journey To

Spread for giveness from the stillpoint, love, peace and joy are here in this moment

Emanate grace, the harmony of the cosmic wave re-membering everything is grace

Love liberally, love liberates us all

Flow as cosmic wave rippling through the cosmos

Happy Trails! on the path of lovingkindness…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 57 – 2/11/2018

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KINDNESS

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.

~Naomi Shihab Nye ~

injoyed a weekend in a field of lovingkindness, days of silence, meditation, chanting… may we be filled with lovingkindness…

happy astonishing light of being lovingkindness every moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 54 – 2/8/2018

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a day of doors, closing and opening like breathing in and out… as i close one door,i take off  to open another… i will be away on a lovingkindness retreat this weekend and treat and retreat it is without electronics and reading materials… i’ll pack my bag lightly, most of what and whom i carry is in my heart…

i’d love your joining me the next three days and every day reciting…

My heart fills with with loving kindness. I love myself. May I be happy. May I be well. May I be peaceful. May I be free.

May all beings in my vicinity be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all beings in my city be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all beings in my state be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all beings in my country be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all beings on my continent be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all beings in my hemisphere be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all beings on planet Earth be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May my parents be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all my friends be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all my enemies be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

May all beings in the Universe be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.

If I have hurt anyone, knowingly or unknowingly in thought, word or deed, I ask for their forgiveness.

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 53 – 2/7/2018

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today’s mission for world harmony week is being the peace, offering peace to another relative or community from the depths of our one heart…

let us be ambassadors of peace in this moment, in every moment humming, re-joy-sing, dancing the anthem of the poetic peace pilgrimage…

Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be
With earth as our mother
Family all are we
Let me walk with my relative
In perfect harmony
Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now
With every step I take
Let this be my solemn vow
To take each moment
And live each moment
To take each moment
And live each moment
To take each moment
And live each moment
In peace eternally
Let there be peace on earth
Let there be peace on earth
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin
With me

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 52 – 2/6/2018

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a day of silencio and stillness, a day of feeling the kindness of rhythm on the pilgrimage…. a day of hearing the cries of the world rising in frequency and intensity, a day of feeling the quickening of collective birth pangs, a day of gathering with midwives to co-llaborate on empowering space for dreams, encouraging strength to take one more step, celebrating the new song gestating, trusting in the call of soul…

and, so, i turn to kuan yin, goddess of compassion, protector of women, children, sailors, fishermen, anyone in trouble, and the sick, disabled, and poor… she who walks the boddhisattva path foregoing enlightenment until all sentient beings are liberated and free from suffering…

according to legend, kwan yin tried so strenuously to alleviate the suffering of all beings that her head split into eleven pieces… buddha awarded her eleven heads with which to hear the cries of the world and when she heard all the cries and reached out to address the needs of so many, her two arms shattered… now, buddha gives her a thousand arms to offer her compassion to all…

may our one heart remain always open being lovingkindness to all and may we all reside in the peace passing all understanding real-i-sing the beauty of our true nature of joy…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 51 – 2/5/2018

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when we live love’s frequency,

we all flow in harmony…

~

what a beautyway to walk everyday and especially apropos during this week celebrating world harmony…

 in these days, can we have too many reminders of all the lovingkindness occurring on the planet? far too often,  media inundates us with the old stories of fear and scarcity, when, in truth, every moment there are more acts of compassion with the groundswell moveing more and more in that direction towards the arc of justice…

#SanctuaryEverywhere is the simple idea of the American Friends Service Committee that everyday people can come together to keep each other safe and that draws on the many traditions of peoples’ movements protecting targeted communities, like the Underground Railroad during slavery, Kindertransport during the Holocaust, the protection of conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War, the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s and in more recent years, #NotOneMore, which has sheltered numerous undocumented immigrants from deportation…

thousand fold thanks for all the countless ways we are being beloved community, we are coming together to stand in love for love together, to form a bridge of sheltering arms providing true refuge for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free, the dreamers, the strangers both inner and outer, all our neighbors, all are relatives …

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 50 – 2/4/2018

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welcome to this week’s installment of sharing the astonishing light of being…

it is said it only takes 144,000 sentient beings to hear the call and turn toward el canto hondo, the deep soul song, the dream of the earth to establish a new paradigm of reality singing in the frequency of harmony throughout the ocean of being…

how i love meeting you in this field of what we deeply value, this sacred space of interconnectedness…

here, we witness and celebrate this collective hearing and following the call to come back home to spirit, to dissolve into spirit, to be so at one with spirit that all borders vanish… we are present as love, the animating energy of all that is, the saving grace that simply opens the door to love… trusting that in this surrendering, this softening, this turning toward pachamama, the unifying spirit breathing all our relatives alive, we are transported to the stillpoint, the place of creation where the dance of the new begins…

today is one more day of hearing and following the call to come back home to spirit, to dissolve and be so at one with spirit that all borders vanish between me and thee… we come in gratitude and offer up our pains and suffering to be used as compost to nourish the earth… we come as love, the animating energy of all that is and knock on the door of feeling like death asking this door to open to love, simply open… in this trusting, this surrendering, this turning we are transported to the stillpoint where the dance begins, yes, we’re coming back…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 49 – 2/3/2018

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thank you, fellow poet farmer, Wendell Berry, more than ever these words echo so resonantly deep within, in that sacred space of inner knowing of true reality, of true nature…. with every step , all our relations are being led to being instruments of peace in a cosmic symphony of harmony…. hear the hum?

fifty-seven years ago, this was a happy day in my family of origin with the birth of a divine child;, one year ago, it was a sad day with the death of a divine child and the opening of  the portal into the dark valley with the sense of being held in the web of life…

yes, today is a day of honoring and celebration on the pilgrimage… feeling the shift into heart consciousness that’s been so quietly forming, feeling it so poignantly in this moment… a day of dancing with the energies of life celebrating the ebb and flow that lead us through the streams of oceanic deeps…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 48 – 2/2/2018

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On Imbolc (In the Belly) also known as St Brigid’s Day, Groundhog Day and Candlemas, we celebrate a day of pausing before walking through a door into the new, into the uncharted, the unknown… a moment to give attention and intention to what we choose to give our life energy to for all our relations…

i choose to be loving presence and to open the doors of our one heart wider to the ocean of compassion, moving from resistance to rezestance where we’re filled to overflowinging with this freely flowing moon of omens and oracles heralding regenerativity which spirals us full circle to the little groundhog who sees his shadow portending more winter…

however, our friendly hedgehogs have a different experience portending spring around the corner… it all comes down to how you look at things, doesn’t it? we all have the ability to look at things differently, to see the world as it is… oceanic oneness flooding our being with the preciousness of this wild and wonderful world and life…

as we celebrate midwinter in the northern hemisphere on  this day midway between winter soulstice and spring equinox, feel the goddess returning as goddess of the hearth with sacred flame here to warm our one heart again…

~

on this gray day of midwinter

the cold has begun to fade

and the days grow longer

a time when earth is quickening

birthing the fire after darkness

now, goddess of the hearth returns with eternal flame

and as earth grows full of life, blessings resound…

may we all celebrate the abundance of new life

and the cascading prosperity of cosmic flow

as light and love  illuminate our path of heart

and return us to our home…

~

synchronistically, this day, 2-2-2018 vibrates at a frequency of transformation, a turning of the wheel with the cycles of life onto another level, a consciousness driven by divine will of lovingkindness and compassion, a consciousness of the heart…  welcome home!