fifty-seven years ago on this very day, the cuban missle crisis came to an end with a collective sigh of relief that our better angels had prevailed, in deed, fear was reborn as courage, our one heart opened expansively…

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today, as everyday, the astonishing light of interbeing presences our lives as we welcome this moment as openly as a hollow reed… bearing witness, mourning injustice of the world, take compassionate actions of waging peace and lovingkindness, returning to the cosmic rhythm of harmony, re-membering and celebrating our turning lead to gold…

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Do not be daunted
by the enormity
of the world’s grief.
Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated
to complete the work,
but neither are you free
to abandon it.
~ The Talmud ~

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let us perfume this moment of deep descent into the portal of transformation with

the ancient words of the ho’oponopono purification chant:

i’m so sorry

please forgive me

thank you

i love you

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and now, may we rest in…

SWEET DARKNESS

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
It’s time to go into the night
where the dark has eyes
to recognize its own.
It’s time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you
can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will make a home for you tonight.
The night
will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

David Whyte

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may hope wipe away our tears of sadness and faith dissolve our fear…