Monthly Archives: November 2016

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 340/1070 – 11/20/2016

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it’s time once again for our weekly picture that speaks a thousand words about the astonishing light of your being and i’m feeling this lotus blossom does just that… these flowers, when surrounded by fire or suffering or adversity become even more fragrant just as your light, your beauty awakens  in such moments and your compassionate heart shines through… thanks be that our inner light can never be extinguished no matter how dark the times may feel… so, gaze into this flower, breathe in the sweetness and connect even more deeply in this moment with the lotus lightness of being you are and evermore will be… deep bows…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 337/1067 – 11/17/2016

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i turn again to MLK as i continue in the company of so many courageous souls with the visioning of a life-sustaining world, the beautiful world we all want and how do we get there… i know in my heart that how we get there is where we get which is why it is critical for us to come together and stand for love… this path of peacefully saying no to hatred in all its forms in an affirmative, fiercely loving way, speaking truth to power is the way of all successful movements effecting lasting change…  when we use tactics of force, words of denigration and the like, this is what we’ll create…

so, i’ll say again and again, now is the moment to dig deep within right down to the core, to the stillpoint, to our essence, our essence of love and to be impeccable in returning with every breath to the wellspring of source…

being the change, standing for love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 336/1066 – 11/16/2016

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these prophetic words, written sixty years ago give such hope today as we watch and hear the last dying gasps of the old paradigm, the system of patriarchy while witnessing and participating in the emerging new world of beloved community, a new paradigm of synarchy, of governing in concert, all of us coming together and standing in love for love…

may each shock to our collective and personal nervous systems, jumpstart our heart into taking courage and right action in alignment with the will of the whole…

namaste

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 335/1065 – 11/15/2016

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almost a half a century ago while still a teen, i, along with a half a million other people journeyed to Washington for the largest peace march ever… yes, squint your eyes and you can see me in the middle of the crowd standing around the reflection pool…  standing in love for love, calling for peace…

fast forward forty-seven years and once again on the ides of November, i join with thousands all over the world in a day of action… a day of standing in solidarity with standing rock, standing in love for love, calling for our mother waters protection, calling for  earthmother’s protection…

always being love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 334/1064 – 11/14/2016

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“I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together. For unity and peace.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

let us offer deep peace to all we meet along the way

namaste

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 333/1063 – 11/13/2016

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holy synchronicity! this week’s edition of, I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being, falls on the super full moon in taurus which is the brightest and closest moon to us in sixty-eight years and is once again dedicated to us… so look into this moon’s brightness, draw down her powerful energy, re-member her light is a mirror of ours and no matter how dark the times may feel, sister moon is always shining and so are we…

breathe in light, breathe out love…

breathe in light, breathe out love…

breathe in light, breathe out love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 332/1062 – 11/12/2016

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how to meet the times we are in with right action is a real question, one so many of us are living now and it is a question everybody feels the force of from time to time… an ancient question, it comes with being human…

here is an ancient koan suitable for now:

A student asked, “When times of great difficulty visit us, how should we meet them?”

The teacher said, “Welcome.”

i’ve been in many gatherings this week, so many of us feel a need to come together and in every communion, we come to a deep space of silence, a moment of waiting for the transcendent function to kick in, for the right action, the movement of aligning with true self, source, great mystery to arise…

may we all keep living the question from an openhearted space until the water clears…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 331/1061 – 11/11/2016

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On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 98 years ago, they blew a whistle and ceased killing at an agreed upon moment. Armistice Day was created to celebrate the ending of World War I and to work for the ending of all war.

The next year, King George asked for two minutes of silence for all people to reflect on and re-member the cost of war and the benefits of a lasting peace… in this moment, let us observe two minutes of silence while we contemplate the words of  an American President, Abraham Lincoln almost a half a century earlier when the United States was dangerously divided…

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

in every moment, may we all tune into a greater wisdom… the peace passing all understanding…