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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 59 – 2/13/2017

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another day on the pilgrimage of love, a day with a simple way to be… as easy as breathing one two three… breathing in love, breathing out love, breathing in love, breathing out love, breathing in love, breathing out love… seeding/re-seeding, cycling/re-cycling the unitive field, ocean of consciousness, sea of love energy, cosmic oneness with the only energy there is – particles of radiant love forming one vast wave of light, the first emanation to pour forth from the great silence and travel, as do we, as a rolling wave of loving light energy… sometimes as a whirling dervish transforming everything in the path, other times as a stationary lighthouse commanding stillness, always a wave of light flowing love through the cosmos, always a wave of love flowing light through the cosmos, seeding/re-seeding, cycling/re-cycling particles of love into the one radiant wave of light…

so, let’s…

dance, dance, wherever we may be

we are the soul of the dance said she

and we’ll celebrate wherever we may be

as we joyfully dance great mystery

~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 58 – 2/12/2017

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“better to light a candle than curse the darkness”

for our weekly segment around showing you the astonishing light of being, i offer this picture of and blessing from the sacred spirit of rainbow mystery, sister of the cosmic hum in all her iridescence to remind us when we are in the dark, we can always come home to the inner light by breathing in through the heart… and while we’re on the subject of  the astonishing light of rainbows…

How the Rainbow Works

Mostly we occupy ocular zones, clinging
only to what we think we can see.
We can’t see wind or waves of thought,
electrical fields or atoms dancing;
only what they do or make us believe.

Look on all of life as color –
vibratile movement, heart-centered,
from invisibility to the merely visible.
Never mind what happens when one of us dies.
Where were you before you even get born?
Where am I and all the unseeable souls
we love at this moment, or loathed
before birth?  Where are we right now?

Everything that ever happened either
never did or always will with variations.
Let’s put it another way: Nothing ever
happened that wasn’t dreamed, that wasn’t
sketched from the start with artful surprises.
Think of the dreamer as God, a painter,
a ham, to be sure, but a divine old master
whose medium is light and who sidesteps
tedium by leaving room both inside and outside
this picture for subjects and scenery to wing it.

~ Al Young ~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 57 – 2/11/2017

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our task is to widen the circle of compassion embracing all that is in its beauty…

Let us radiate lovingkindness in this moment…

Begin with yourself. Calm the mind/heart and find the center of your being. Generate warm, gentle, loving feelings for yourself:

May I be safe from harm.

May I be happy just as I am.

May I be peaceful with whatever is happening.

May I be healthy and strong.

May I care for myself in this ever-changing world graciously, joyously.

From yourself, move out spaciously into your immediate surroundings. Include every living being within this circle:

May all beings in the air, on land, and in the water be safe, happy, healthy, and free from suffering.

Stay within your reach. As you feel your immediate surround fill with the power of loving kindness, move on, expanding the surround in concentric circles until you envelop the entire planet.

Expand your loving kindness until you are able to visualize Earth, spinning within the vast, mysterious universe. If you like, continue expanding the sense of your loving kindness, filling the endless emptiness of the universe.

May all living beings everywhere, on all planes of existence, known and unknown, be happy, be peaceful, be free from suffering.

thank you for widening the circle of compassion and embracing all…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 56 – 2/10/2017

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today, i travel  the path with heart cruising down the rainbow trail as dreamweaver, the one who enters the gateway into infinity, the path with heart, the path of rainbow mystery…

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Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary.
This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you,  a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it..

~ Don Juan ~

may we all travel the path with heart – looking, looking breathlessly… seeing, being luminous rainbow energy…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 55 – 2/9/2017

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i went out tonight to draw down the energy of this almost full moon lunar eclipse in leo, have been feeling her and the stars reflected in my being… have you also been sensing what the stars are destining for you? noticing what is popping across your radar screen?

feeling the urge to embody the king/queen of the jungle energy? yes, it is the moment to step through the portal and trust whatever unfolds for this passageway is guarded by powerful, protective spirits aligned with our higher purpose…

may we all be fueled with the roar vibration of the lion to stand up and claim our personal and collective sovereignty coming from the authenticity of our one cosmic heart, the sacred space of wisdom empowered by the omniscient, all-seeing eye across all time and space supporting the dream of the cosmos… to re-member we belong to each other, we are one illuminated heart…

take courage, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 54 – 2/8/2017

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what a day of meeting the moment fully, of sitting and standing, breathing in and out, in a space of grace, a sea of love energy, a field of mystery as i kept vigil with someone going through a narrow passageway, as i experienced a renewed awakening of a long held dream and the concomitant elimination of suffering in the form of fear and anxiety, of syncing into the kindness of rhythm when we come home to the heart, the field of unitive consciousness, the one rainbow body we are, stardust threads of luminous energy…

when in dark nights, unknown spaces, uncertain moments, always come home to the heart syncing into the  deep earth of our being, the wisdom place in the core and breathe in deeply the love we are, the most powerful healing, wholeing medicine that gives birth to a dancing star…

thousandfold thanks for walking home with me and sitting around the fire of great mystery always being love…

 

 

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 53 – 2/7/2017

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a day of holy synchronicity, 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 kindness of the rhythm…

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 realizing the beauty of our true nature of joy…

 

 

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 52 – 2/6/2017

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today feels a little caught between the worlds, not quite in rhythm so it helps to be reminded of the spark in me, the spark in you where the map, the blueprint is eternally lit… i also love coming home to the heart, a sacred space in nature, tahoma as it’s known to natives, rainier as it’s known as a park… no matter what it is named, it’s a wonderful backdrop for dreaming, especially when hanging between worlds as the lenticular clouds hovering convey the spacey rhythm of this day…

and now that i have the image, i can drop down into the rhythm and let the kindness of germination, the space between the notes float in the stillness of the dance…

 

 

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 51 – 2/5/2017

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Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker, Activist

welcome to this week’s installment of showing us the astonishing light of being… in these days, can we have too many reminders of all the lovingkindness occurring on the planet? far too often, the media inundates us with the old stories of fear and scarcity when, in truth, every moment there are more acts of compassion and the groundswell moves more and more in that direction…

#SanctuaryEverywhere is the simple idea of the American Friends Service Committee that everyday people can come together to keep each other safe 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…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 50 – 2/4/2017

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it has been 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, this beautiful moment where all is well…

today 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…