Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage

come home to the heart, the ocean of being…

Stillness

Essence

Love

Flow

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welcome, welcome to day 17 of a season of peace, another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence as ambassadors of love and light with the sun shining through the clouds on the energy of  rapture/rupture…

perhaps it’s that today is the ides of this moon that draws my attention to the chaos/cosm of the outer world and my intention to be peace and healing in these pivotal times… yesterday, the second year anniversary of the Parkland massacre, today’s year anniversary of a declaration of a state of emergency in the USA and today many of us meditating together for the loss of lives in China and across the planet and on and on… as we hear through the ethers of so much chaos abounding across the planet calling us to listen deeply, to bear witness intimately being ever so patient with what’s riotously germinating in the core, what’s emerging out of the collective, i turn to a poet, another pilgrim on the journey who so beautifully amplifies the message of coming home to the heart and waiting for right action to organically arise out of  patiently bearing witness…

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Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

– Rainer Maria Rilke –

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Letters To A Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke is an extraordinary book of ten letters written to a young man of nineteen years about to enter the German military named Franz Kappus who wrote Rilke looking for guidance and a critique of some of his poems. Rilke was himself only 27 when the first letter was written. The resulting five year correspondence is a virtual owner’s manual on what it is to be an artist and a person. Since we are all poets, pilgrims on a journey, it seems poetic justice to share the wisdom here and now for us to apply to the metaphor of our own lives…

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“You ask whether your verses are any good… You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you – no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must”, then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.”

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may we all be peace, love, joy, harmony and patience aligned with source in co-creating the beautyfull cosmos…

Dedicated to St Valentine, Patron Saint of Pilgrims

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every moment is valentine’s, a celebration of and surrender to love… every pilgrimage is journeying along the path with heart… every pilgrim is a poet on a journey deeper into the heart, a saunterer – a holy lander, spiraling ever more profoundly into the ground of being, the sea of love energy where…

every breath is a naming prayer

every step a walking meditation

bringing us home to our one cosmic heart, an ocean of devotion

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dreams often inspire a flow of contemplation which inspire words and deeds… i’m in a classroom sharing with the openhearted children of the earth, sharing a heart mudra to the tune of “this little light of mine…” where you join your thumbs together for the base of the heart temple and your index fingers together for the spire which you place on your third eye to open the flow of divine light to shine through the heart as lovingkindness and compassion and then you move your hands, the heart temple of light, down to the belly, the center of being, the stillpoint, the watery womb of creation and with this movement, this simple action, our inner light, the eternal flame flows soundlessly throughout the all that is in ever widening waves, one with the tides of interbeing, the sheltering arms of the tree of life…

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as we meet this moment fully, we are loving kindness and compassion, joy dancing in ever widening swirling and whirling circles of peace passing all understanding, one with divine matrix flow…

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may we be filled with loving kindness

may we be well

may we be peaceful and at ease

may we be happy

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welcome, welcome to day 15 of a season of peace, our day to celebrate self love as we travel the path with heart… another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence, ambassadors of love and light with the sun shining through the clouds on the energy of  rapture 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…yes, LALAs, love ambassadors, light ambassadors, it all comes down to being love, period; for in the field of the great beyond we real-eyes we belong to each other,that tthis moment, this day we choose love letting it begin with SELF (Stillness Essence Love Flow)…

in honor of self love day…

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“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.

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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 sharing the medicine of  love…

welcome, welcome to day 14 of a season of peace, our day to simply be, to simply be love as we travel the path with heart… another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence as ambassadors of love and light with the sun still shining through the clouds on the energy of  rebirth and  riotous revolution germinating deep in the earth…

yes, ambassadors of love, it all comes down to being love, period; for in the field 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… always wandering in wonder, always being love…

may we be filled with lovingkindness and widen the circle of compassion including all our relatives…

welcome, welcome to day 13 of a season of peace, our day to travel  the path with heart cruising down the rainbow trail as dreamweavers, the one who enter the gateway into infinity, the path with heart, the path of rainbow mystery… another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence as ambassadors of love and light with the sun still shining through the clouds on the energy of  rebirth and  riotous revolution germinating deep in the earth…

“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 ~

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we are one heart

overflowing with love

inextricably connected

to the stars above

and the river below of rainbow flow

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

such a treasure chest of riches is this moment, this day… welcome, welcome to day 12 of a season of peace, the 56th day of this year for me, a day when my thoughts turn to intoxication – being drunk on love – and another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence as ambassadors of love and light with the sun still shining through the clouds on the energy of  rebirth and  riotous revolution germinating deep in the earth… how auspicious that today is also the day of celebrating a premier ambassador of love – Ram Dass…

on this tenth day of flowering february, the calling is being, simply being, being essence which is to say being love and  offering light and lovingkindness to all our relatives from the depths of our one cosmic heart knowing that the only thing lasting forever is love…

“I love you. Why save these words for someone special? Let them flow to everyone you meet. I love you. Let it be a given. Automatic. I love you… Whoever you are… I love you…” ~ Scott Stabile ~

perhaps, you already practice this with everyone… if so, keep it up and if not, now’s the moment and this is our mission as ambassadors of love… and yes, if it’s too new to say this to all you come in contact with, say it to yourself, at least at first until you grow into your full stature of being who you are born to be… love walking around in form… and, yes, i love you…

happy astonishing light of being an intoxiate of lovingkindness every moment, every breath, every step breathing in deeply and repeating with Ram Dass, i am loving awareness, i am loving awareness, i am loving awareness…

namaste’

welcome, welcome to day 11 of a season of peace, day 9 of this moon of the flowering field and this day of celebrating the astonishing light of being in this moment of blessed unrest and great turning… are you wondering about re-joy-sing that all is well when we see so much falling apart, so much suffering? it is said that confusion and uncertainty are the raw materials of wisdom and understanding, that every birth is messy and painful and then once the new creation emerges, our one heart melts and we sing at the frequency of ecstasy…

still in the glow of the full moon in leo lighting our fire, melting the ice of our one heart, let us in this moment truly see each other, see the astonishing light we are and looking through eyes of wonder, oneder, let us see there is only one of us here made up of trillions and trillions of cells, each cell with its own destiny, purpose, dharma, pathless path…

may the provocations of the outer and inner worlds awaken us more deeply to our seeing provocations as pro vocations impelling us into our vocations, our callings to be who we truly are – rainbow lightwaves of love re-joy-sing that in this moment of presence, in every present moment, all is well…

welcome, welcome to day 10 of a season of peace and in my neighborhood, the full moon in leo just came in at 11:33 PM magnetically illuminating and charging our cells at a lightning-fast speed, creating a pulsating vibration of potential and momentum for transformation…

i’m on a retreat this weekend just as i was two years ago and once again a major emphasis is on compassion which is just what the doctor is ordering in this season of blessed unrest for us all…

may we 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, so join with me and buddhists across the planet in the full moon practice of loving kindness…

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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.

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take courage, beloveds…

welcome to day 9 of a season of peace and this seventh day of the flowering field of february when the heartsong, soulsong of pachamama, our earthmother calls this hollow reed, this instrument of peace to rest in preparation for a deep sea journey as the sun begins to shine on the energy of rebirth… 

as i dance the via transformativa, the way of rebirth, of awakening, i find myself being in dark, unknown spaces, uncertain moments which open into portals leading home as i return to the breath and the magical blessing of thanks transporting me into the  deep earth of our being, the wisdom place in the core where we float in the sea of love energy, the most powerful healing, wholeing medicine that gives birth to a dancing star…

thousandfold thanks for walking home with me along the pathless path of illumination and sitting around the purification fire of great mystery always being loving presence…

welcome to day 8 of a season of peace and what an 8 day, an alpha and omega day, a be all/end all day, 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/old 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…