Monthly Archives: September 2022

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 278/9 Years – 3200 Days – 9/20/2022

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every outbreath, an emptying… every inbreath, a re-membering…

ah, another day of winging across the vast skysea and being a celestial chanting instrument of peace for every moment is pregnant with the promise of peace, our attention and intention manifest it with our every breath consciously saying/feeling:

i am peace, we are all peace with every breath… join me now in invoking a peace meditation on the eve of world peace day…

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“We call all noble-hearted people to find within the light of love and divinity that dwells in them from immemorial times, since their souls have existed.
May this light … expand on the earth showering her face with peace and harmony.
May this light … calm and harmonize the black shadow of war, violence, hate and disharmony .
May this light … fill the hearts of all people and the sites of nations where the shadow of violence has found a place to stay.

May this light reach the hearts and minds of ALL the Heads of State,
of ALL leaders of the revolution from  right to left from north to south.

We extend our profound gratitude to all the Mamos (Shamans) of the world, all men, women and children from  different cultures, races and creeds, from all cardinal directions who have joined us and those who will join us in this effort to raise a prayer for peace and nonviolence .

We wash away the cries of the distressed, the blood of the victims of violence, the pain of their families.

May they be replaced by the innocent laughter of children, the ideals of youth and the wisdom of life of our elders.
May we no longer know the signs of strife: to hear birds singing sorrows, nor watch clouds stained with blood, nor feel breezes intense with heat, nor see rivers swollen by the mountains’ tears .
May new fraternal bonds of unity and peace formed through our invocation together  embrace humanity in harmony with itself and with nature.”

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shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 277 – 9/19/2022

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every outbreath, an emptying… every inbreath, a re-membering…

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“This is how you change
when you go to the orchard
where the heart opens:

you become
fragrance and the light
that burning oil gives off,

long strands of grieving hair, lion
and at the same time, gazelle.

You’re walking alone without feet,
as riverwater does.

The taste of a wine that is bitter and sweet,
seen and unseen, neither wet nor dry,
like Jesus reaching to touch.

A new road appears without desirous imagining,
inside God’s breath, empty, where you quit saying
the name and there’s no distance,
no calling dove-coo.

A window, a wild rose at the field’s edge,
you’ll be me,
but don’t feel proud or happy.

Bend like the limb of a peach tree.
Tend those who need help.
Disappear three days with the moon.

Don’t pray to be healed, or look for evidence
of “some other world.”
You are the soul
and medicine for what wounds the soul.”

~ Rumi ~

walking the camino of peace into the unitive field out beyond is such a deepening and widening and inspiriting of the open heart of soul transporting me into a cave of illumination and silence and is a perfect prelude to the next adventure of moving into a season of letting go and emptying to return into the deep earth as the dark becomes more and more the landscape in the northern hemisphere marked by celebrating the holy day of equinox on Thursday with the new moon of balance following on sunday… in these intense moments of the great turning, i join in the ubuntu mantra and ask for peace for all… deep bows…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 276 – 9/18/2022

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in this sacred moment of eternity when I wish to show you the astonishing light of your being, here are four beautiful lights snuffed out so early on earth to shine eternally in consciousness reminding us of whom we really are…

fifty-nine years ago on this very sunday, a horrific bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama took the lives of these four astonishing lights of innocence…

shocking the nation and the world, their tragic deaths marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, ultimately, contributing to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964… instead of provoking a race war, Birmingham Sunday rallied people from around the globe to support the civil rights cause…

today, racist rhetoric is is at a fever pitch and terror and violence are once again being used to oppress but now, as then, millions of people are standing in love for justice…

 in memory of all astonishing lights paving the way for shifting consciousness from domination to harmony, we must continue moving in alignment with great mystery and bending the arc of the universe towards justice for all…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 275 – 9/17/2022

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“All paths are the same, leading nowhere.”

~ Don Juan ~

today marks the eleventh anniversary of the occupy movement which inspired me three months later to occupy the abundance of infinite love and gratitude… today i also remember again the dream of seven years ago of the tidal wave facing me, being in a state of suspension pondering whether i could open myself to the strength flowing through the cosmos, do i have it in me to hold the tension, to feel the dissolution, the loss, can i summon the courage to walk the path with heart?… the more i look into the wave and the more i tune into the breath of great spirit, the more i can deepen into breaking down to breaking through to freedom…

yes, Don Juan, all paths are the same for the journey is the destination, it is the process and not the outcome, the coming home to the heart is what it’s all about, this magical mystery tour, the buen camino, the good read road, this project of awakening, this being in the present moment. the now here…

may we all choose a path with heart, any path resonating as one with heart, follow it wholeheartedly and then rejoice and laugh knowing life will be over altogether too soon…

and, may we all cultivate the feeling with every breath as we all travel this peaceful path with heart open to the strength and support and peace of our ever more abundant cosmos generously gifting us whatever is needed…

om shanti, shanti, shantihi…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 274 – 9/16/2022

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blessing the space between us
as we journey into mystery
the pilgrimage to our one heart

in these times of such dynamic energies, it is a necessity and a love to dwell in the quantum field of deep spaciousness where love is all there is and where we celebrate a season of peace for:

“This is the bright home
in which I live,
this is where
I ask
my friends
to come,
this is where I want
to love all the things
it has taken me so long
to learn to love.
This is the temple
of my adult aloneness
and I belong
to that aloneness
as I belong to my life.
There is no house
like the house of belonging.“

~ David Whyte ~

thank you for meeting me in this field out beyond, in the crystalline house of belonging… this moon as in month also brings an especially touching poignancy to the space between us as this journey into mystery, this pilgrimage into the tiny space of our one heart, the void, the sacred space of emptiness is such a deep dive into our one cosmic heart, the stillpoint of creation where the is only the dance…

surrendering to the beloved and trusting in the tenemos of great mother to support and nourish us, we summon the great courage inspired by father sky to leap into the unknown and relax into the organic, rhythmic flow of the mysterious dance of life…

holding hands in the dark, feeling the waves of our one beating heart, we witness the birth of the new, the promise of every inbreath followed by the re-joy-sing of every outbreath… for in our coming together in the sacred space of our cosmic heart, we change everything, we are transformation dancing to the tune of el canto hondo, the deep soul song… all is well for out in this field of creativity we weave a world where peace prevails…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 273 – 9/15/2022

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welcome to this sacred moment of the astonishing light of our true being on this ides of spirited september… perhaps you, too, are feeling the acceleration of the great turning within your being as we bear witness to the great turning in the outer world as well… i re-member a lucid dream six years ago right at this moment, a dream of a tidal wave extending from the ocean floor to the vast sky, a wave commanding rapt attention and intention… in the ensuing turns around the sun, i have devoted  the soul energy flowing through me to gathering the quintessence, the essence of love…

join me now in the field out beyond and deep below with a soft gaze bringing attention and intention to the real-eyes saying… I am not these eyes and what they see, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

settle into spacious awareness saying… I am not these ears and what they hear, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

breathing in and out and simply being saying… I am not this mouth and what it tastes, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… I am not these hands and what they touch, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… I am not this nose and what it smells, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

now noticing thoughts and memories arising saying… I am not these thoughts, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… I am not these memories, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

now seeing the whole body and feeling the body from within the body saying… I am not this body, I am the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

breathing in feeling simply loving awareness… breathing out letting go of everything except resting in the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

may we all be nourished by these words and awakened to serve for the benefit of all as we dwell in this moment re-membering who we really are…

blissed bee!

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 272 – 9/14/2022

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“You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to the highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”

~ R. Buckminster Fuller ~

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we all be longing to come home to our one heart

 to awaken and re-member our original space of belonging

where mother waters sing to us of our true nature

one body, one mind, one heartbeat, one love

welcome home to our belonging circle

welcome home to an ocean of love

today, the walk on the camino delivers me into community, truly, a common unity of love and compassion and generosity and encouragement for all the brokenhearted living in the gap of the world that is and the world that can be once our one heart is broken wide open and we all re-member we belong to the universe…  today is the first day of eight days of cosmic unity culminating in world peace day on the twenty-first where we come together and re-weave the world with wisdom and wonder holding ourselves with integrity through whatever comes re-membering we are peace, love and joy in our pure essence…

every outbreath, an emptying… every inbreath, a re-membering…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 271 – 9/13/2022

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in this sacred moment of eternity, may we trust in our soul song, the who we really are and may our moments in the river of life be filled with delight, flow with ease and blessed with wisdom… to anchor this in our one cosmic heart, let’s take a deep breath, bear witness to the unfolding of great mystery and unwrap a present of presence available to us with every breath…

For Presence

“Awaken to the mystery of being here
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to
follow its path.
Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame.
May anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of
soul.
Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek
no attention.
Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven
around the heart of wonder.”
~ John O’Donohue ~

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 270 – 9/12/2022

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pilgrimage of peace

a daily breathing practice

in rhythm with flow

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pathless path of peace

creating a world of justice

guided by love

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flowing in beauty

being the soul of the space

wherever we are

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devoting ourselves to…

meeting each moment fully

meeting it as a friend

while always re-membering:

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“in the end only three things matter: how much you loved,

how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you”

~ Buddha ~

the poetic peace pilgrimage was conceived so many moons ago as a daily breathing practice of sacred activism, a breathing in of the bodhisattva vows to keep returning to the breath until all beings are liberated…

every day is a day of peace, every moment is a moment of peace, spirited september really underlines the collective theme of peace with celebrating it on the 21st just as this prayer of St Francis, a favorite since childhood is the prayer, the intention, the vow of the peace pilgrimage….

so, welcome, well come to this astonishing light of being awakened into peace, to this astonishing moment of eternity when we re-member that no matter what we can always be at peace in the deep peace of the running waves always flowing within the ocean of our interbeing…

may we conspire, breathe together these sacred vows this moment, every moment transforming ourselves and the world as we surrender to the vast ocean of peace…

Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the gentle night to you.
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 269 – 9/11/2022

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every outbreath, an emptying… every inbreath, a re-membering…

such a conscious quest i’m on these last five years to do just that – to awaken every wild cell in this one cell of the one body we all are and what an adventure transmuting the lead into gold…

on this iconic day of flames etched in the collective unconscious, on this 9-11 day i re-member five years ago when my fire eye, the eye suffering a devastating injury surrendered to the inflammation process that had been percolating for so many moons… the pain was as intense as when the eye had been first been clawed and once again it was not looking good… shuttled from hospital department to department for tests and more tests, i stayed in constant communion with beloved expressing my doubts about being up for this calling to surrender and awaken in the most transformational way to date… this intense purification has geometrically progressed turn around the sun after turn around the sun for these last many moons opening me and so many others to the deepest, most conscious awakening initiation ever…

as with all calls to initiation, i (and i know i am in great company) did not feel i had it in me to make this pilgrimage and, yet, in surrendering to limited outer sight, a rhythm of  synchronisiddhi, of meaningful co-incidence followed opening my broken heart to a heart broken wide open… holy synchronicity, in this deep pool of reflection, a re-membering flows by… today is also the ninth anniversary of the first outer poetic peace pilgrimage, a day when i connected with Sacajawea who vowed to guide me through the wilder-ness…

poised on the precipice of the beginning of the sixth year of this conscious awakening cycle, it’s so interesting to find myself once again in the midst of making another leap onward, another strenuous challenge catapulting me into another letting go and emptying to make space for the new world…

thanks be for the awakening project we call life guided by the inspirited soul emphatically, magnetically pulling us home to be instruments of peace, hollow reeds, channels for source energy to pour the creative elixir of love through…

so, on a day such as this, under the spell of this moment of eternity, may we let go of  the inessential and re-member what truly matters is who we really are…

in closing, on this 21st anniversary of 9-11, may we have the courage to face whatever is, both inner and outer, and hear the cries of the world and ourselves… may we listen to the old master and transmute the darkness within by sitting quietly, invoking the invisible reams and plugging into source energy to empower right action… the wisdom of the serpent coupled with the gentleness of the lamb…

another day of re-membering, a day of moment after moment of connecting the dots, a day of walking through the shadowlands and taking one more step and one more step, a day of surrendering all to the call to be true, a day of  centering in the stillpoint listening deeply to ancestors’ whispers while viewing the moon: empty, surrender, let go, be present, relax, trust, open our one heart a little wider receiving the eternal unstoppable flow, a day of dancing divinely on the rainbow trail made all the more special by dancing witht beautiful relatives of the serving spirit tribe… thousand fold thanks…