“Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but Love.”
– Rumi –
welcome, well come to this moment of eternity which i want to devote to a suggestion offered by a beautiful and wise soul… Desiree asked if i might return to Peace Pilgrim’s 4 Relinquishments focusing on one each night; loving that idea, here goes with the first surrender or softening…
“Once you’ve made the first relinquishment, you have found inner peace because it’s the relinquishment of self-will. You can work on this by refraining from doing any not-good thing you may be motivated toward, but you never suppress it! If you are motivated to do or say a mean thing, you can always think of a good thing. You deliberately turn around and use that same energy to do or say a good thing instead. It works!“
how i love that Peace Pilgrim’s portal into true reality was walking in nature where it became so clear to her as to all sages and poets and mystics that life is the love affair, that becoming poetry, surrendering the protective self in service to the true self is what it’s all about…
“Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.”
~ Derek Walcott ~
i want to close with another poem, the shabad of the forty day practice which Desiree had asked me to repost each day and for the last week i post this daily crystal and real-eyes i did not include the shabad…. here we are on day 13 of living into re-writing the destiny of our earth as we join together in our one heart in the sacred space of universal love…
“When the earth is in distress, it attunes itself with love and sends out a prayer.
The True One hears it, and with total ease is pleased to give Its strength and steadiness.
It sends a command to the Power of Rain, and the rain pours down in torrents.
The wealth of grain and corn grows thick.
A person cannot describe its value.
Oh Naanak, appreciate the Divine Identity.
You, Divine One, cause the life-giving food to be given to all the creatures.
Eating this, peace grows, and the cycle of pain comes no more.”
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yes! peace prevails on earth…