for today’s image of showing you the astonishing light of your being, i share the energy of this sacred day of flow, honoring the peace pilgrimage we walk each moment and on a day such as this one, we begin in stillness where we dance our essence of love in a cosmic field of flow… waves of light vibrating, sparkling, radiating, expanding, dancing, connecting, bonding, awakening in great mystery’s web of shimmering light…
may we all take joy in surrendering and softening into the divine flow of the oceanic sky of being trusting in the implicate order where every moment is sacred, a rhythmic dance of grace…
namaste…
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 84 – 3/10/2018
today is a day of soulitude, a day of listening to the wind and the rain… a day of radical presence, of being the new operating system programmed with a spacious consciousness of nowhere to go and nothing to do but simply wait patiently for the soul song to flow…
i’m in good company, my old dolphin guides, Adolpho and Adelphi, free and easy wanderers of the great beyond, come out to celebrate our ever widening circles of courageous souls letting go of small i identity to dissolve into the individuated large I AM Presence and to be open (organic presence empty now) to the cosmic flow of oceanic consciousness…
these wise sages of liminal space, guides at the threshold whisper words of grace… “re-member, it is the impeded stream that sings” and so i venture with them to the stillpoint to listen… here i see grandmother spider dancing creation and weaving a new web of life, carbon turned into crystals of light, a thousand dancing diamonds twinkling in the night, imbuing the all with powerful sight of the world being breathed into life again, unfolding mystery of the knowledge within… here in great silence we listen deeply to our one cosmic heart, dancing the love song we are called now to impart…
shanti, shanti, shantihi…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 83 – 3/9/2018
another day to celebrate the moon of women’s herstory and to rise as a great wave across the cosmos celebrating the divine feminine in her quest for equality, freedom and harmony… coming together in sacred circle drawing down the energy of the new moon, we pause across the planet to gather in peace and be the rising tide singing our soul song… Let’s focus the healing power within our hearts on all of humanity and our beautiful planet.
Unify Heart Meditation
Let’s all hold hands. Let’s gently close our eyes and inhale together, slowing the breath. Bringing our attention to how our bodies are feeling right now in full acceptance of whatever is present. Notice where your body is touching the ground and bring your focus there. Begin feeling the pulsing energy of the Earth beneath us. The heartbeat of Mother Earth. With an inhale, breathe in gratitude and love for all that she gives us. Continuing to breathe, feel your heartbeat, your unique beautiful rhythm. Breathe deeply from your heart as you open to the sensation of love within you. Feel the pulsing energy of this love. Envision and feel this pulsing energy as a light glowing in your heart.
Breathing deeply, see and feel this light getting brighter until it fills your whole body and surrounds you. With your next exhale, think of someone you know who is having a difficult time in their life. Imagine that this person is right in front of you. While remaining connected with the love in your own heart, allow yourself to feel empathy for this person’s struggle as you breathe, honoring their journey. See the light in their heart as the same loving light that is within yours. As you offer your love and compassion to this person, feel the light in both of your hearts growing brighter together. Now, with an inhale, focus your attention back to your heart again. Feel the light grow brighter as you allow the love from your heart to nourish any parts of you that have been in pain.
Open to feeling compassion for yourself as you breathe the light of your love into the places where you have kept fear, grief, anger, stress, and insecurity. Open to feeling nourished by the love within. Offer yourself acknowledgment and respect for everything you are, how far you have come, and for the incredible beauty and power within you.
Take a deep breath and start to feel the woman to your right. This woman has her own struggles, pain, fears, and insecurities. Take a moment to feel empathy and great respect for this powerful woman beside you. While breathing into your heart, feel the power of the love in her heart. See and feel the light within her as it grows brighter, surrounding her. Feel the light within your heart and the light within her heart growing brighter together. Take a moment to feel the woman to your left. This woman has her own struggles, pain, fears, and insecurities. Take a moment to feel empathy and great respect for this powerful woman beside you. While breathing into our own heart, feel the power of the love in her heart. See and feel the light within her as it grows brighter, surrounding her. Feel the light within our heart and the light within her heart growing brighter together. Feel the love and light of every woman in the circle being amplified… Growing brighter… filling the whole room.
Envision in your life and community, women are interacting from a space of harmony, mutual support, celebration, acceptance, and upliftment. Feel in your heart, yourself and every woman feeling secure and happy in who she is and supported by our global sisterhood. Bring this intention to the light in your heart and with a deep breath imagine sending that light into the earth below you, like a seed being planted. Bring your hands to your heart and feel your heartbeat. Take a deep breath and gently open your eyes. When you are ready, stand in love for love and serve all our relations as an instrument of peace founde on justice, on cosmic balance and filled to overflowing with lovingkindness guided by love…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 82 – 3/8/2018
little girls with dreams become women with vision
Happy International Women’s Be Bold for Change Day!
on this day and beyond, we pledge to:
help women and girls achieve their ambitions
challenge conscious and unconscious bias
call for gender-balanced leadership
value women’s and men’s contributions equally
create inclusive flexible cultures
challenge bias and inequality
campaign for peace
forge women’s advancement
celebrate women’s achievements
champion women’s education
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It has long been said that when 1000 women gather, heart consciousness, the divine human will be birthed. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama says that it will be women who transform the world…
today we rise as a great wave across the cosmos celebrating the divine feminine in her quest for equality, freedom and harmony… coming together in sacred circles drawing down the energy of the waning moon, we pause across the planet to gather in peace and be the rising tide singing our soul song… let’s focus the healing power within our hearts on all humanity…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 81 – 3/7/2018
Blessings from the Rainbow Trail
she who arrived attended by rainbows
under the fullness of the in between times moon
gifted with light’s radiance, like the sun she glows
with crystalline shafts reflecting the moon
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under the fullness of the in between times moon
veils are lifted revealing the all that there is
sky father dressed in rainbow robes
mirroring colors of earth mother below
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blowing sweet breath on the crystalline shafts
igniting combustible fiery light
she who arrived attended by rainbows
whispers creation into the dark night
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and in the morning’s returning light,
the cosmos is colored in waves of delight
by the one who arrived attended by rainbows
gifted with radiance, like the sun she glows
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many moons ago while sauntering along the oregon trail under the magical spell of the in between times moon, rainbow woman appeared in the sky promising of fortune’s smile returning to the land, cosmic order restored with the birth of a thousand dancing stars…
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Native American Prayer for Peace
Oh Great Spirit of our
Ancestors, I raise
my pipe to you.
To your messengers the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides
for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind
to each other so that they may grow
with peace of mind
Let us learn to share all good things that
you provide for us on this Earth.The Prayer of Saint Frances
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred . . . let me sow love
Where there is injury . . . pardon
Where there is doubt . . . faith
Where there is despair . . .hope
Where there is darkness . . . light
where there is sadness . . .joy
O Divine Master,
grant that i may not so much seek
To be consoled . . .as to console
To be understood . . .as to understand,
To be loved . . . as to love
For it is in giving . . .that we receive…shanti, shanti, shantihi…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 80 – 3/6/2018
a day on the pilgrimage like all others of living the quest ion of what drumbeat are we dancing? what heartbeat are we meditating?, i give you, my co-heart pilgrims, poets on a journey, Rilke’s plea from Letters to a Young Poet to be patience, to live patiently with everything, loving all that is yet unresolved, for it is in the loving that sacred balance organically rises…
a day on the pilgrimage of being and doing the work, the play, the intention, the purpose of being who we are… light beings of divine love embodied through our one cosmic heart in an intricate web of interconnection…
thousandfold thanks…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 79 – 3/5/2018
honoring this day of quintessence when the Poetic Peace Pilgrimage was conceived on this fifth day five years ago…
awakening with cold feet on this day to go wild,
to warm them up, i begin with a SMILE…
flowing in love now, each breath a thanksgiving,
being love in this moment, every breath a peace prayer passing all understanding…
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breathing deeply in our one heart’s embrace,
dancing silence and stillness in this field of grace
reverencing the beauty of a new born rose,
opens the heart wider melting ice floes
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Poetic PEACE Pilgrim now prepares to march forth
flowing in rhythm, one with source
tuning into the cosmic hum
surrendering and trusting in what’s to come…
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free and easy wanderer, dancing star,
when cold feet return and doubts arise,
come home to the breath with closed eyes
come home to the breath, wanderer from afar…
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may we all be empty bowls to be filled to overflowing with lovingkindness and peace passing understanding…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 78 – 3/4/2018
It isn’t more light we need, it’s putting into practice what light we already have. When we do that, wonderful things will happen within our lives and within our world.
– Peace Pilgrim –
just days before International Women’s Day in this moon of Meditative March on this day of celebrating your astonishing lightness of being, what image better than the inspiration of how to walk this pilgrimage…
may we all join together giving some of our time to make herstory…
her peace message still remains: This is the way of peace–overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. That’s still the message that I’m carrying after all these years. Well, you see, we haven’t learned to live it yet. The key word for our times is really practice. It isn’t more light we need, it’s putting into practice what light we already have. When we do that, wonderful things will happen within our lives and within our world.
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 77 – 3/3/2018
deep dark mystery
dances with infinite luminosity
in spacious emptiness
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as this silent re-treat of lovingkindness draws to a close, i reflect on this serene sojourn in the quantum field of deep dark mystery where i saunter along a path unknown, a dancing with infinite luminosity resting in the gap, in the sacred space of silence, the stillpoint…
in this field beyond words, beloved appears to breathe us alive, inspiring we hollow reeds to open to being conduits of divine flow responsive to taking one more step, encouraging our sitting tenderly in the moment with our feelings, our ancestral feelings, our descendants’ feelings all merging in the one cosmic devocean of now…
in this solitude, in this divine alchemical flowing temple, the daft (divine alchemical flow team) transmute our shadowlands into gardens of grace… watered by our tears, we blossom like flow-ers opening to the light and revealing the sparkling jewel, the polished star pearl of the sea, radiantly resting in the center of the bloom…
here in the black hole of great silence, in the dancing stillness of great mystery, we stand at the portal of a brave new world where we’re called to courageously let go the old and break our one heart wide open to expansive, creative space for birthing to the new…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 76 – 3/2/2018
deep in the retreat field of lovingkindness, feeling the call to comfort the suffering through witnessing presence…
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May I Be a Guard
May I be a guard for those who need protection
A guide for those on the path
A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood
May I be a lamp in the darkness
A resting place for the weary
A healing medicine for all who are sick
A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles
And for the boundless multitudes of living beings
May I bring sustenance and awakening
Enduring like the earth and the sky
Until all beings are free from sorrow
And all are awakened.Prayed every morning by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
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may our hearts burst open in unconditional love
may our minds be illumined by a peace passing all understanding
may our spirits touch all that is with our transforming radiant presence
namaste, beloveds…