Monthly Archives: January 2016

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 45 – 1/30/2016

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Named Journeying January 30 Rumi Dark Forest.

on this next to the last day of journeying january, one long continuous conversation – a turning with, 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, what do we truly love?

when we enter this primeval night, this moment of cosmic dreamtine, what images, sensations, inner knowings, ideas, feelings, aromas, songs, dances arise spontaneously? as we breathe in deeply our earth mother who loves us so through our one heart, feel this sea of love energy infusing every wild cell in your being with love so that now you see, really see the radiant rainbow cosmic communion we are when we arrive, when we turn with, when we come home to the heart, the field of stillness out beyond the known and named and certain, the sacred space of constant flow where infinite love is all there is to know….

we all come from great silence and to silence we shall return, with every breath we come home to be reborn…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 44 – 1/29/2016

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Named Journeying January 29 Robert Frost Road Less Traveled

has today’s pilgrimage felt like a magical mystery tour for you as it has for me? it is the 44th day, a master number, of the 3rd year of crystal-eye-sing the journey with a daily post, a day marking the death of the poet who inspired me from early on talking of the road less traveled, a journey i have taken over and over again even when a part of me wants to take the known way…

yes, when it comes down to it as to what is essential and how to best serve the whole, soul answers the call of the wild and saunters along the path of adventure, to traverse a path asking for wholehearted, wholebeing devotion…

with every breath, with every step, may we commit to being present in, trusting and surrendering to divine flow – the stillpoint of our essence of love’s flow where the dance of life begins…

take this moment of true refuge as pregnant pause to rest in the gap, the space between formless and form, the silence from which the dancing pours forth to simply be… in this moment, this wild and precious moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 43 – 1/28/2016

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Named Journeying January 28 Poetic PEACE Pilgrim 1 Shepherding

“It really boils down to this, all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.

with every breath and step on the pilgrimage today, i’ve been contemplating how we all best serve the whole… i believe the bedrock of this query is understanding that all our relations prosper only when we realize we are part of a greater whole and our survival, our sustainability is intricately linked in the same way we are intricately interconnected to every thread in the web of life. It is, always has been and always will be a story of cooperation. Just as all the 70 trillion cells of my body cooperate to make me work, so must the 70 trillion cells to the 70th trillion power cooperate for the cosmos to continue expanding…

yes, Martin saw that the will to connect is our most essential impulse and how what affects one of us, affects everyone of us and how could it not since we are one body-mind-spirit-soul made up of trillions of cells to the infinite power…

since every thought, word and deed affects all our relations, may we all walk in wonder, saunter in awe  as shepherds, as lightkeepers, as sheltering arms, as beloveds as we all walk each other home…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 42 – 1/27/2016

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Named Journeying January 27 ReBirth 9-13-15 010

for the last 58 days, i have traveled in good company, beloved community, with the sangha of letting go, a caravan of re-joy-sing as we prepare for that which cannot be named… quantum leaping into the void (vortex of ineffable dimensionality) whose signpost can only point to where we are wandering as…

hollow reed, drop of dew, bubble floating in a stream

flickering light, phantom of the night, luminous, numinous dream

coming home to true emptiness, place of great silence, ground zero of all being

whirlwind spiraling silently while dancing stars form effortlessly

in open spaciousness of great mystery

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may we all awaken to the call of the wild…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 41 – 1/26/2016

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Named Journeying January 26 Oregon Coast Pilgrimage July 2014 003 Wildpeace

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

By Wendell Berry

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 39 – 1/24/2016

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Named Journeying January 24 Confluence Celilo Falls 8-30-15

when i saw this picture today that i took five moons ago on a pilgrimage through the belly of the earth to the healing waters of a once powerful falls, it looked like a dream which prompted my re-membering a dream of today… like the outer pilgrimage months ago, today’s inner pilgrimage also traverses through the belly of the earth going deeper and deeper into great mystery’s river of loss floating into dreamtime… i’m in a car and we’re winding around a mountain road when i realeyes no one is driving the car… i look around and feel the presence of pure love auto piloting and know i can relax and trust this journey… looking out to the left, i see beloved ocean below flowing in and flowing out and i am filled with peace, love and joy as we continue our spiraling trek around the mountain into the land of rainbow sky where i breathe this moment of awe and rest on the trail of wandering in wonder knowing everything is grace, especially important on a day like today to be reminded and to hear the lost falls’ echoes rising from the river below the river… be here now in divine communion, one with cosmic flow…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 38 – 1/23/2016

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Named Journeying January 23 Moon Full of Joy

yes, full moons are all about fulfillment, just as the moon is in a state of being filled full of light, so, we share and mirror this abundance, this spirit of love overflowing joyously reflecting moonbeam’s journey awash in the ocean of cosmos flowing rhythmically with all our relations merging into this vast sea… as light waves breathing in and light waves breathing out, flowing in beauty and flowing out love…

may we journey ever more deeply with sistar moon along the magical mystery trail into the vast flowing sea of our one identity – infinity…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 37 – 1/22/2016

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Named Journeying January 22 Moon Full in Leo

as we all cry out for a vision of new life coming over the next thirteen moons, a vision inspired by inner light, fiery leo , heart of humanity stands with sun at the heart of the solar system forming a channel for the great star of initiation, Sirius, chalice of pure love energy to pour forth overflowing gifts of radiant light and divine love through our one cosmic heart…

let us take this moment under this full moon of connecting deeply with SELF to breathe in and breathe out, dream, invoke, ground into earth and fly across the skies our vision of how best to serve the whole… and, as we sit around the cosmic round table with all our relations contemplating the grail question, we thank our sister full moon for the gift of creative fire, the gift of creative expression to share in the great circle of love…

drawing down the energy of full moon, may love pour forth, may strength uplift and may light encourage us all…

 

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 36 – 1/21/2016

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Named Journeying January 21 Poetic PEACE Pilgrim 1 Beauty

today’s pilgrimage is a caravan of re-joy-sing, a moment, a beautiful moment of walking in beauty, being breathed and walked on the beautyway and transported into the field beyond where we are one family walking each other home, walking with each other into great mystery… blessings and blissings for all our relations as we saunter along the rainbow trail seeing divine beauty in each moment, each beautiful moment… namaste…

For the Traveler

Every time you leave home,
Another road takes you
Into a world you were never in.

New strangers on other paths await.
New places that have never seen you
Will startle a little at your entry.
Old places that know you well
Will pretend nothing
Changed since your last visit.

When you travel, you find yourself
Alone in a different way,
More attentive now
To the self you bring along,
Your more subtle eye watching
You abroad; and how what meets you
Touches that part of the heart
That lies low at home:

How you unexpectedly attune
To the timbre in some voice,
Opening in conversation
You want to take in
To where your longing
Has pressed hard enough
Inward, on some unsaid dark,
To create a crystal of insight
You could not have known
You needed
To illuminate
Your way.

When you travel,
A new silence
Goes with you,
And if you listen,
You will hear
What your heart would
Love to say.

A journey can become a sacred thing:
Make sure, before you go,
To take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward
The territories of spirit
Where you will discover
More of your hidden life,
And the urgencies
That deserve to claim you.

May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.

May you travel safely, arrive refreshed,
And live your time away to its fullest;
Return home more enriched, and free
To balance the gift of days which call you.

~ John O’Donohue ~