may we all feel the glow of our inner sun illuminating the beauty way of great mystery…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 205 – 7/9/2015
Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence. Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal. Others, less talented, need long periods of silence, perhaps more than one hour of quietude, before they reach the desired result. The desired result is what the old sorcerers called “stopping the world”, the moment when everything around us ceases to be what it’s always been. This is the moment when sorcerers return to the TRUE nature of man. The old sorcerers always called it “total freedom”
Don Juan (Carlos Castanada)
in this moon of being stopped still in my tracks, of dwelling in an upended world, i see, hear, feel, be and live more and more in graceland, in the sacred space beyond words, in the joyous radiance of the silent heart of overflowing compassion.
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 204 – 7/8/2015
Yes! It’s a selfie after passing the month milestone of saving my eye; I’m now cleared to take showers and am unchained from proximity to the hospital… There is nothing like cool water on another hot day to lift the spirits higher, even on this day of a different kind of grace, a day when things i thought would go smoothly ran more roughly calling for even more slowing down and more patient presence…
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 203 – 7/7/2015
today is one of those effortless days of flowing grace with thanks spontaneously emanating from every wild cell, a day of seeing the radiant beauty of all that is, a day of lovingkindness, a day of connecting with the sun in the center of our one heart… may we all awaken and know ourselves as the eternal radiance we are forever…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 202 – 7/6/2015
In his own words…
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
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May we all breathe his Blessing of Peace deeply through our one heart.
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His parting words leaving Portland:
“I’m always mentioning that mentally, emotionally and physically we are the same human being. So the potential which I have and that I use – you also have that same potential. You must realize that potential and utilize that potential as much as you can. Then you will be a happy person and live a meaningful life.”
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 201 – 7/5/2015
i wanted a rest from high desert heat,
to refresh the soles of my weary feet…
until i heard beloved calling out my name,
and whispering softly the same refrain…
come back, come back, come home to me,
and dwell in the heart of great mystery
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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 200 – 7/4/2015
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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 199 – 7/3/2015
this prayer is in answer to Lao Tzu’s quest i’m on about cultivating patience, to stay still in the muddy waters, to rest deeply in the ebb tide, the germination cycle for the waters to clear, the sprouts to rise, the wings to unfold… may we all befriend the pregnant pause dreaming in the rhythm of the waves and re-membering it takes chaos to birth dancing stars…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 198 – 7/2/2015
with every new moon as in month, i love begiining with John O’Donahue’s ” For A New Beginning”… every inbreath is a new beginning and how beautifully to begin Joyful July with the Cosmic Turtle Full Moon, the Blessing Moon coupled with the union of Jupiter and Venus in a Star of Bethlehem unseen for over 2000 years…
on this day of new beginnings, i love re-membering how to awken to this new day…
WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING
In that first
hardly noticed
moment
to which you wake,
coming back
to this life
from the other
more secret,
moveable
and frighteningly
honest
world
where everything
began,
there is a small
opening
into the new day
which closes
the moment
you begin
your plans.
What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.
What you can live
wholeheartedly
will make plans
enough
for the vitality
hidden in your sleep.
To be human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.
To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.
You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged.
Now, looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
window toward
the mountain
presence
of everything
that can be,
what urgency
calls you to your
one love? What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
and spread
its branches
against a future sky?
Is it waiting
in the fertile sea?
In the trees
beyond the house?
In the life
you can imagine
for yourself?
In the open
and lovely
white page
on the waiting desk?
~ David Whyte ~
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 197 – 7/1/2015
purifying, purifying, purifying…. cleansing the space for the new to come in… walking outside to behold the night sky resplendent with star of bethlehem and full blessing moon pouring the abundance of infinite love and gratitude all over the universe inspiring the shamanic wizards of cleansing, frogs, to burst into song while wolves howl and all that is dances to the tune of the cosmic hum deeper and deeper in the silent chambers of our one heart…