an angel transported me to the temple on the hill today where a priestess looked into my eye and offered healing balm and encouragement for the path ahead, and i am so grateful for the messages coming through in such a way that i could hear them and that this loving field is so overflowing with lovingkindness, yes, we can get through anything as we breathe together… gratefully, i share this heartfelt message fra angelico said to his co-hearts half a millennium ago, it expresses what i want to say today and everyday… ~ “I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not already, but there is much, very much, which though I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this precious little instant. Take peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and courage in the darkness could we but see; and to see, we have only to look. Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their coverings, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, and wisdom, and power. Welcome it, greet it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing Presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then, to claim it, that is all! But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims wending through unknown country our way home. ~ Take Heaven! Take Peace! Take Joy! Take Love! Take Wisdom! Take Courage!
i’m going to keep this short and sweet tonight for just like last night, i’m having trouble seeing in the outer world… so much to see in the inner world which is where i am destined to be for awhile longer… it feels like such a part of the great turning we are all experiencing on one level or another with so much falling apart to come back together in a way that works in this moment… that’s my cue, this moment, to turn off the lights, close my eyes and breathe deeply from the earth mother into every wild cell and out into the vast sky sea whispering thank you…
for the past 1513 days, i have gathered daily with another in a sacred communion to invoke lovingkindness blessings for all our relatives… each evening we join to offer ourselves, everything we are, to the all that is… we envision the whole cosmos joining us and experiencing our true reality of oneness and numinous love… i love also seeing us joining in this blessing prayed every morning by the Dalai Lama… ~ May I be a guard for those who need protection A guide for those on the path A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood May I be a lamp in the darkness A resting place for the weary A healing medicine for all who are sick A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles And for the boundless multitudes of living beings May I bring sustenance and awakening Enduring like the earth and sky Until all beings are freed from sorrow And all are awakened. ~ may we all imagine and may we all be the frequency of peace, love, joy, wisdom, harmony, justice and compassion… today has been a long day working with a computer guru and my toasted computer trying to retrieve so much of my work over the last decade but seems to be irretrievable… thank you so much for your support and encouragement during this challenging and gifting time – i love knowing we are always connected whether electronic devices are functional or not… boundless love always, beloveds
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may never complete this last one, but I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~ ~ today, i stand still in the center of the wheel communing with source about immortality which brings peace understanding it is the moment to break free and live in ever widening circles of co-rrelation…
whew! what a very interesting moment we are in as we circle around what is and who we are in ever widening circles demonstrating that we, like the cosmos, are ever expanding and deepening and we have it in us to face into the pain, the suffering, the despair of a world of uncertainty putting love into every action…
yes, today’s the day to stop the world, to stand still in the center and listen to all the messages of the whirling winds…
always return to the breath being still and fully present in this beautiful moment being a mantra of thanksgiving, being a falcon of free flight, being a song of joyous delight, taking this moment, this wild precious moment to love boundlessly…
ah, today is astonishing light of being day and it’s almost a year to the day that a pilgrim of amazing grace joined the celestial choir so it seems a perfect time to honor our songstress of soul…
the songbird known as the queen of soul, the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, child musical prodigy, civil rights activist, touchstone of the times calling us, singing us into the core of being where love, beauty and truth abide, this extraordinary/ordinary being now circles around the cosmos singing us home to our one heart…
more than ever, we need the truth and power of her soul song… may we be inspired to walk the talk, to dance the soul song, Aretha so beautifully emanated…
i can’t re-member a time without her voice echoing in the background, thankfully, her voice echoes eternally…
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr ~
today in portalandia, we’re having a protest of standing for love and a counter protest in contradiction and still i’m in a quintessential celebration of the luminosity of love and feeling such gratitude for these last eight days, an infinity of being unplugged, what a gift to have the space to journey within into the dream cave without distraction of outer stimulation…
in the midst of a world unraveling may we dance in the dark in the rhythm of unknowing, stilling, dwelling in the river below the river, the underground wellspring of love…
re-member all you truly love… re-member… re-member… close your eyes as the waves of love rise and breathe it in deeply into every wild cell… in this moment, this beautiful moment luxuriate in being love, our birth rite, our true nature…
on awakening, i re-member a dream of being in a field where the Beloved Communion dwells and hearing that our mission is to sing… as on so many awakenings, a melody sings me as i luxuriate in this liminal space with one sole in dreamtime and the other in awaketime… are you hearing beloved singing you? listen a little deeper for the cosmic hum as you suspend noise and distraction in this moment, this beautiful moment… are you hearing the whispers of the ancestors flowing through our oceanic body? ah yes, let’s pause here in the stillpoint and align with the rhythm of our one heart… may earth’s song reach into our deepest and wildest sacred spaces… may we hear the melodic voices of all our relations: stones, stars, streams, breezes, sand, sun, ocean, currents, plants, starfish, seas, planets, creatures, rivers, and winds… may our inhalations inspire re-joy-sing and our exhalations re-sound and re-verberate loingkindness and harmony throughout the watery womb of our one heart… sing, sing, wherever you are, a song of compassion blessing pachamama, the spirit of land, the spirit of life, the one spirit encircling all in the great web of life intricately interconnecting all our relatives as one body with trillions and trillions of cells resonating as one vast field of love…
“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self.” ~ Bhagavad Gita ~
a day of tahoma, the native name for beloved mt rainier pictured above… love the name tahoma sounding like to home, ah… and indeed, this day of being unplugged again is another day of coming home to the heart and trusting in this wild journey… trusting in it’s rhythm which dances to the beat of the divine drummer of our one heart… following the rhythm deep within to the silent stillpoint where our most profound purpose lies in the ground of being calling us to nurture this trust daily… calling us to offer full presence, lovingkindness, compassion and generosity which opens the portal to a freedom of floating in the golden buoyant sea and vibrating in a river of joy frequency which is in the core of all being, that field of unitive harmony out beyond and in beyond all boundaries and borders into the unknown where we follow a pathless path, a path the soul carves out and invites us to be open and curious bearing reverential witness to the unfolding and taking action through dreaming, attention, intention…
love walking home through the unitive field with you being breathed together as one…
A MIND THAT HAS NO WALLS, THAT IS NOT BURDENED WITH ITS OWN ACQUISITIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, WITH ITS OWN KNOWLEDGE, A MIND THAT LIVES TIMELESSLY, INSECURELY – TO SUCH A MIND, LIFE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY THING. SUCH A MIND IS LIFE ITSELF, BECAUSE LIFE HAS NO RESTING PLACE. – JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI – ~ may life flow through all our relations as a timeless meandering river of water always moving aligned with the flow of dynamic life… come, sit in the sand with me and listen to the song of the sea, feel into the rhythm of the waves breathing in and breathing out, experience life as a wave always flowing freely… in joy being the ocean in a drop – ever seeking, exploring, pushing, overflowing its shoreline, penetrating every crevice with the waters of life, ceaselessly eroding the walls of suffering and separation to move us into the great turning and the revelation that there are no borders or boundaries and that there is simply one ever expanding interwoven web of iridescent silken threads… thank you, computer, in your death, your sacrifice, your making sacred, my mind is unburdened in a thunderous clean-sing of acquisitions, accumulations, its own knowledge, to live timelessly with life being extraordinary and ordinary now that the mind is life itself in service to the whole… om shanti …
