holy synchronicity! today is the day of sharing an image of the astonishing light of your being as well as Human Rights Day and the day that the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo…

this long held dream and cause so dear to my heart, peace, seems through these eyes in this moment to be closer to realeyesation…  thousandfold thanks for all beings’ contributions in thoughts, words and deeds to this noble endeavor… thousandfold thanks for lighting the fire and kindling the eternal flame of peace…

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All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.

Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting

While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.

~ Hafiz ~

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shanti, shanti, shantihi