2015

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Jo Beall

i love celebrating the obon festival every summer when we honor our ancestors’ journeys… i love moments of darkness as a powerful space for seeing the great beyond inside of ourselves and reflecting this sight outward… this year, it’s especially poignant for me since i’ve been spending so many days in darkness… i love seeing this time of healing blindness as an extended obon festival, a beautiful time of communion with ancestors…. thousandfold thanks for deepening the spirit path into great mystery…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 237 – 8/10/2015

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Jo Beall

in this moment, this beautiful moment, close your outer eyes and tune into the universe within… take a deep breath and begin to adjust to the peace of the darkness of inner space… as you float in this spaciousness, re-member what you love… now, lie down in this field of love and enjoy the dream images dancing through your being….

take comfort in this gentle space with nowhere you must go for you are now here in your space of true refuge, a magical place so easily accessible by simply breathing in the rhythm of the waves and turning your senses within…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, listen for beloved’s sweet refrain to come back, come back, return to me dwelling this moment in harmony…

may we all conspire in joy and birth a planet of peace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 236 – 8/9/2015

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Jo Beall

seventy years ago, at the end of World War II, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki in Japan with the hypocenter right on the grounds of what is now the Peace Memorial Park…

listen to Words of the Sculptor about the Peace Statue he created to commemorate all who lost their lives to atomic radiation:

“After experiencing that nightmarish war, that blood-curdling carnage, that unendurable horror, Who could walk away without praying for peace? This statue was created as a signpost in the struggle for global harmony. Standing ten meters tall, it conveys the profundity of knowledge and the beauty of health and virility. The right hand points to the atomic bomb, the left hand points to peace, and the face prays deeply for the victims of war. Transcending the barriers of race and evoking the qualities of Buddha and God, it is a symbol of the greatest determination ever known in the history of Nagasaki and the highest hope of all mankind.”

-Seibo Kitamura (Spring 1995)

may we all sing out for peace and harmony for all our relations in our ever expanding universe and thank Great Spirit for blessing us with every breath…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 235 – 8/8/2015

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Jo Beall

are you feeling the energy of your inner lioness, the divine feminine, roaring gently into all your wild cells and quickening the rhythmic flow of love and compassion?

yes, today the doors of love and compassion have been flung wide open for all to breeze through with our courageous lionhearts into this brave new world of lovingkindness and compassion….

let’s all take this moment, this beautiful moment. to bask in the radiant light streaming through us to see all that is as it truly is… a beautyway of love and light…

i see you… i am you… i honor you… i love you… i love you… i love you…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 234 – 8/7/2015

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Jo Beall

on awakening, i re-member a dream of being on the grounds of Open Heart U where the Beloved Communion dwells and hearing that my mission is to sing… like so many days. a melody is singing me as i luxuriate in liminal space with one sole in dreamtime and the other in awaketime…

are you hearing beloved singing you? listen a little deeper for the cosmic hum as you suspend noise and distraction in this moment, this beautiful moment… are you hearing the whispers of the ancestors flowing through your oceanic body? ah yes, let’s pause in the stillpoint and align with the rhythm of our one heart…

may earth’s song reach into our deepest and wildest sacred spaces… may we hear the melodic voices of all our relatios: stones, stars, streams, breezes, sand, sun, ocean, currents, plants, starfish, seas, planets, creatures, rivers, and winds… may our inhalations inspire rejoicing and our exhalations resound and reverberate the joyful sounds throughout the watery womb of our one heart…

sing, sing, wherever you are, a song of love blessing the earth…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 233 – 8/6/2015

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Jo Beall

Sadako was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her city seventy years ago. Nine years later she developed the atomic bomb disease, leukemia. Hearing the ancient Japanese story that says when you fold 1000 paper cranes your wish will be granted, Sadako folded 644 cranes with her wish for healing before she died at twelve years old.

Inspired by her courage and strength, her friends and classmates dreamed of creating a monument to memorialize their friend and all children killed by the bomb. Young people all over the land of the rising sun realized their dream a couple of years later when in 1958 a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in Hiroshima Peace Park. The children also made a wish. It is inscribed at the bottom of the statue and reads:

“This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world”.

Today, people all over the world continue to fold paper cranes and send them to Sadako’s monument in Hiroshima.

May there be peace on earth and may it begin with me…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 232 – 8/5/2015

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Jo Beall

today, i re-member the grace of lovingkindness, of returning with every breath into the stillpoint, the silent heart, the lap of beloved to expand into greater and greater compassion for all that is…. to see the hurt and pain, the suffering that gets projected outward and to look beyond and see the core of love always present no matter how great the shadows clouding the light…

may we all radiate lovingkindness fromfrom our one heart with every breath…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 231 – 8/4/2015

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Jo Beall

may all our days be filled with simple grace and beautiful glows reflecting the sunny radiance of our one illuminated heart…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 230 – 8/3/2015

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Jo Beall

may we all celebrate a moment of grace right now… place your hand on your heart saying, “i love you”… now, radiate this love out like a rainbow encircling the planet saying thank you, thank you, thank you for all small mercies… enjoy this moment of grace and another and another… always living grace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 229 – 8/2/2015

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Jo Beall

welcome home! how beautiful to be re-uniting in our one heart with all the doors and windows wide open to the ocean of love we are and to have the wind whispering beloved’s water song in the rhythm of the waves through all the trillions of our wild cells lulling us into stillness, the sacred space of our silent heart with these lyrics from the platters…

Only you can make this world seem right
Only you can make the darkness bright
Only you and you alone
Can thrill me like you do
And fill my heart with love for only you

Only you can make this change in me
For it’s true, you are my destiny
When you hold my hand
I understand the magic that you do
You’re my dream come true
My one and only you

now, close both eyes and see with the other eye, the loving eye… dwell here always… always being love…

Abundance Created Together (ACT)

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke –

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