Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage

Remember the clear light, The pure clear white light From which everything in the universe comes, To which everything in the universe returns; The original nature of your own mind. The natural state of the universe unmanifest. Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature, it is home.

~ The Tibetan Book Of The Dead ~

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Give light and people will find the way.

~Ella Baker, Activist~

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thank you angel of light for being with us in those moments of feeling a storm rushing in uprooting centuries of debris, thank you for pouring healing waters constantly and cleansing, clean-sing so all may see the light of our true nature, who we are essentially…

 in these moments, can we have too many reminders of all the lovingkindness occurring on the planet? far too often,  corporate 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 moving 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, 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 re-membering we belong to each other, we be longing for each other…

welcome to day 6 of a season of peace… come lie with me here in the flowering field taking in the beauty of this moment…

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 re-newed 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 as we return back home to spirit and dissolve into be so at one that all borders vanish between me and thee, we come in gratitude offering 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 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…

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…help me to live this day quietly, peacefully. To lean upon Thy great strength trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will patiently, serenely. To meet others peacefully, joyously…

~St Francis~

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welcome to this day of dancing with the energies of life, of witnessing the ebb and flow of the rhythmic tides, the currents of great mystery, this day of of re-membering to surrender and soften into the embrace of the sheltering arms of the cosmic tree of life waiting patiently in this moment on the fifth day, the quintessential day, of celebrating a season of peace…

Peace to all beings
Whether near or far
Known or unknown
Real or imaginary
Visible or invisible
Born or yet to be born.
May all beings
Be well and happy
And free from fear.

Peace to all beings
Within and beyond the imagination
In the world of ideas
In the world of memories
And in the world of dreams.
May all beings
Be well and happy
And free from fear.

Peace in all elements
Of earth, air, fire and water
Fulfilled in space
Peace.

Peace in all universes
From the smallest cells in our bodies
To the greatest galaxies in space
Peace
And light rising

Peace to all beings
Within each being here
To those beings that have been in the past
And to those beings that are yet to be in the future
May all beings
Within each being here
Be well and happy
And free from fear.

(Buddhist Prayer)

on this quintessential day of peace re-membering the quintessential peace pilgrim, may we all tune into the timeless frequency of being peace in this moment…

welcome to the first day of this moon of the flowering field of february falling on the eve of the holy day of imbolc and the third day of a season of peace… a moment, a day, a moon, a year, a decade to begin anew and call in the spirits asking to be presented with doors that open as wide as our heart to our new path of discovery, of awakening unfolding along the road less traveled… a road inviting our wholehearted presence, our wholebeing essence, our complete trust, our suspending doubt when in places unknown and in uncertain circumstances, our letting go of any and every thing no longer working to open the space of the flowering field way out beyond and way in the deepest recesses of the holy vessel, temple of love we are, everything is…

we honor our new beginning still under the glow of the cosmic moon of transformation and celestial synchronicity with our soul’s intention for change… in our new life and story for this decade, this turn around the sun, this month, this day, this moment we commit our energy to… being there for each other in peace, love and joy trusting in beloved to carry us across the wild deep blue sea to a shore we cannot see, trusting beloved to carry us into the true refuge of great mystery’s unfolding grand design…

in this moment of new beginning, will you join me in dreaming into now a just world of love and peace? i also invite you to engage in peace and love with daily ultradian healing breaks, sacred pauses to come home, returning to the deep restoring breaths that reset our being back into balance… thousandfold thanks…

my soul honors your soul/our soul… i honor the place in you/in us where the infinite resides. i honor the light, love, truth, beauty, joy and peace within you/within us…

namaste, beloveds…

welcome to the second day of a season of peace and this last day of journeying january where we bless the space of this moon, this month of dreaming… dreaming a world of peace… being a world of peace in this moment, this wild and precious moment…

on this day of reverencing the journey to our one heart, let us come together and contemplate unity…

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deeply breathing into the belly, the wisdom center, visualize a pillar of light emanating from the galactic central sun, then going through all beings of light inside our Solar System, through brother sun and sister moon and then through your body to the center of our earthmother… deeply breathing again into the belly, visualize another pillar of light rising from the center of earthmother, then up through your body and upwards into the sky towards all beings of light in our solar system and our galaxy and the billions of other galaxies in our ever expanding cosmos… feel you are now sitting in two pillars of light, the light flowing both upwards and downwards simultaneously and keep these pillars of light active for a few minutes…

with another deep belly breath, visualize a soft pink healing divine feminine energy light wave, healing all our relatives of their past traumas, bringing peace, harmony, understanding, abundance and unity… see all of us working in unity for the creation of the new earth… see all relatives celebrating and joyfully participating in the creation of our new reality where everyone can obtain what they need and freely choose to live as they desire for the good of the whole…

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may we celebrate the radiance of  light uplifting the rising tide, the surging flow of divine feminine energy flooding the streets, the town squares and on and on and on…

as we bless this space between us, this one long continuous conversation, being together with truth; this blink of an eye month so potent with transition into the unknown – a great turning within, intimate communion with all that is – flows from the deep wellspring at the center of being… a moment of feeling the earth move under our feet as we make a seismic shift and like the earth, open to what is calling us, what must come forth in us and feel into what we truly love…

as we are pulled by a magnetic force to gather together, to stand together in love, i hear the same conversation echoing again and again…. how are we to be in this pivotal moment, who are we to be… and on this day of the turning of the wheel contemplating what is truly real, asking what are we choosing to birth, for what do we choose to stand?

i return to the courageous, the valorous voices booming from all the standing rocks where they stand as a rock that will not be moved, will not stray from being loving presence and speaking truth to false power…

the stone people the council of ancestors are asking for our prayers, our presence, our profound direct action for the next seven generations… they ask us now to come to stand together…

We Stand for the Earth loving her dearly.
We Stand for the Water for it is life.
We Stand for the Children, the holy vessels of the holy vessel!

standing together being loving presence always…

“Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into your life. Then, without effort, you are impelled to truth and to perfect contentment.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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let us now join with and embody the wisdom of the great sage, Howard Zinn…

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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something, If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however a small way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.“

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in concert with the Season for Nonviolence which begins today on the anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination and ends 64 days later on April 4th, the anniversary of King’s assassination,today the pilgrimage begins a season of peace…

let us invoke the beloved peace prayer of St Francis to begin this saunter – this walk on holy ground for this season of peace…

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“….. make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.”

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may we all begin and end each day with a prayer for peace…  when saying goodbye to people, may we say “May Peace Prevail on Earth…”  may we create space in our lives dedicated to praying for, meditating, singing, dancing, contemplating  and being peace… in this way, creating a cosmos of beauty all around…

“…help me to live this day quietly, peacefully… to lean upon thy great strength trustfully, restfully… to wait for the unfolding of thy will patiently, serenely… to meet others peacefully, joyously…”