Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7/7 Years – Day 7/ 2198/Days – 12/23/2019

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On the day I die, when I’m being carried
toward the grave, don’t weep. Don’t say,

He’s gone! He’s gone. Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets and

the moon sets, but they’re not gone.
Death is a coming together. The tomb

looks like a prison, but it’s really
release into union. The human seed goes

down in the ground like a bucket into
the well where Joseph is. It grows and

comes up full of some unimagined beauty.
Your mouth closes here, and immediately

opens with a shout of joy there.

~ Rumi ~

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on this third day of celebrating soulstice, of standing still with the sun, of celebrating the return of the light, I hear late in the afternoon that Ram Dass died yesterday… it seems the blink of an eye when Ram Dass at his last annual retreat on Maui was chanting the first mantra he shared from his guru…

shree ram jai ram jai jai ram… over and over again we chant this mantra of grace… later, Ram Dass will go into his signature mantra… I am loving awareness… in celebration of his life, his light, let us join together in loving awareness…

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let’s take this moment to conspire, to breathe together in gratitude gathering the quintessence re-membering who we truly are… loving sparks of light…

we are not these eyes and what they see, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

settle more deeply into spacious awareness saying… we are not these ears and what they hear, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

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

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

now seeing the whole body and feeling the body from within the body saying… we are not this body, Iwe are 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…

thank you for filling us with lovingkindness

thank you for supporting us in everything

thank you for holding us in peace and ease

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

now, feel this healing light flooding every cell of our being dissolving all rigid, inflexible, habitual ways of being into patterns resonant with quintessential soular consciousness…

let’s pass this gift forward sending the divine light of love through our raised hands… feel the light emanating from your hand and feel this energy of light attracting more and more light, more and more love with every pulse we transmit into ever widening circles…

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thank you for walking us home…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7/7 Years – Day 6/ 2197/Days – 12/22/2019

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on awakening today to the return of light, i savor standing still with the sun for another day, resting in another eternal moment of softening, surrendering to love, shedding outgrown skins, letting go into the flow of grace, re-membering my many times daily mantra of the past 52 (the number being of stillness) moons…

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“To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything, give everything up.

Knowing others is a kind of knowledge;
knowing yourself is wisdom.

Conquering others requires strength;
conquering yourself is true power. “

Lao Tzu

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yes, today is a day of celebrating the astonishing light of our being by celebrating grace by letting go, dropping into simplicity, tuning into the cosmic hum, listening to great silence singing us home, welcoming us to the star within, star of onederfield, heaven on earth… sacred space of radiant re-birth… breathing in and breathing out, we ride the wave of rainbow light through  the night to our home, this moment of de-light…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7/7 Years – Day 5/ 2196/Days – 12/21/2019

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Don’t you know yet? It’s your light that lights the worlds. ~Rumi~

i love this moment when all of nature surrenders as we welcome winter in the northern hemisphere and the return of the light bidding farewell to darkness and for a moment of sacred pause we stand still and reflect on this turn around the sun and the ways we have served the web of life, the ways we are called to release to make room for new seeds of intention we are invited now to plant as we draw down the the waning moon’s energy into the watery womb…

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singing light into the dark

connecting with the stillpoint of creation

surrendering to love’s cosmic hum

mirroring nature

standing still like the sun

silently dreaming

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today, while standing still with the sun invoking and breathing in this soulstice blessingway as we birth and nurture light’s eternal renewal and reflect and resound, a song from childhood echoes inside, This Little Light of Mine… And, yes, as the words direct, i’m gonna let it shine, shine on the old story burning it away leaving us free to draw down the power of the waning moon and the Capricorn sun to be the new cosmic story…

while sitting today in the dark with Hecate, goddess of the darkness, join me in holding our hands over our heart as we take this soulstice moment of deep pause for re-membering and clean-sing and re-joy-sing the moons of 2019, when we see through shero’s eyes, we real-eyes what we experienced as disappointments, obstacles, challenges all carry a seed, a gift for us to unwrap… a present that delights and surprises pointing the way to be peace, love, joy and harmony…

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To the Four Winds and the Four Corners of the Earth

To the Falling Rain and the Fire in the Sky

I call on you in Deep Respect and with Great Gratitude.

I call upon you to Support, Guide and Protect 
all who receive this prayer.

At this time of quiet and stillness

When the Light of the World is dim

And the Darkness around us deep

May we be still and listen for the silent sound of the 
seed of Illumination

That lives, always, within our heart and soul and mind.

May we seek now to awaken to more of the Light within.

For in the dark even the dimmest light can be seen.

In darkness, the faintest flicker of light

Is enough to guide us and show us the way.

May the inner light we now rekindle burn strong and bright.

May it expand and grow throughout the coming year

And may we continue to see, feel, share and 
shine our inner light

Into the World

Even as the outer light returns.

And so it is!

Edward Mills

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keep on shining…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7/7 Years – Day 4/ 2195/Days – 12/20/2019

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on this, the cusp of soulstice, the day before the sun stands still, i find myself re-membering a lucid dream of profound stillness of many moons ago where i stared into a towering wave stretching across the earth and reaching up to the heavens… suspended in the stillpoint of the ocean of being, WE ARE in this moment, this beautiful moment…

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body, speech and mind in perfect harmony

our one heart floating along in rhythm with the waves of the sea

awestruck, we are transfixed by this still mountain of water

with the power to break us, to break our heart wide open

to welcome a new/old world, a new/old way of being

present… now… in the moment…

standing together in love

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today, re-membering and reflecting on the still wave and a thousand other images from this turn around the sun, i am once again transfixed, in awe at the synchronous spinning of the waves, such a divine, rhythmic threading of the web of life… for one brief instant, i see simply breakdown, then, in the next flash the transcendent function kicks in transporting us to the field out beyond, the field of breaking open, breaking free, breaking through into harmony…

feel our one heart smiling as we dance along the spirit path together deeper and deeper into the sacred wheel, spiraling into rainbowville…

magic is on the way…

as we, like the sun, slow down and still invoking the power of this portal, this doorway into the divine feminine and release into the fire of spirit what no longer serves replacing that with an invitation for new seeds’ germination…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7/7 Years – Day 3/ 2194/Days – 12/19/2019

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Looking behind I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward I am filled with vision. Looking upward I am filled with strength. Looking within I discover peace. ~Q’ero~

thank you for filling this day with quintessence, of love, of gratitude, of beauty, of courage, of light…

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awesome,totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, thank you for singing our walking prayer…

thank you for being present in our every step as we wander into wonder

thank you for breathing us into being from the well of great silence

thank you for blessing us as we journey deeper into grace

thank you for blessing our homecoming into sacred space

for deep within is memory

of an ocean running free

round a field of rainbow light

cosmos of awe, garden of delight

thank you for breathing us into longing for the distant shore

thank you for breathing out belonging of oneness evermore

thank you for returning us now to the belly, womb of singing cells

thank you for breathing us in and out in rhythm with ringing bells

resonance resounding throughout the galaxy

resonance resounding, blessed harmony

awesome,totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, thank you for singing our prayer…

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7/7 Years – Day 2/ 2193/Days – 12/18/2019

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According to the latest UNHCR report, “Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2018”, by the end of last year, “almost 70.8 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations.”

let us take this sacred moment to offer metta, lovingkindness, for all seeking refuge and sanctuary…

May I be filled with lovingkindness.
May I be well.
May I be peaceful and at ease.
Let me be happy all the days of my life.

take a deep breath bringing it in knowing it to be true…

now, visualize a refugee — a specific person or a group of people allowing yourself to believe in these aspirations, as though they are gifts you are actually giving this person…

May this refugee be filled with unconditional kindness.
May they have good health.
May they have inner and outer safety all the days of their lives.
May they be peaceful and at ease.
Let them know happiness today and always.

now visualize all beings and repeat these phrases:

May all beings be filled with lovingkindness.
May we all know good health all the days of our lives.
Let us know that inner and outer safety is our right.
May we all be peaceful and at ease.
May all being in all directions and all times be happy.

when we inhale, know these qualities to be right and true and when we exhale, send unconditional sincerity to all beings…

may we bring these intentions into actions for the benefit of all beings…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7/7 Years – Day 1/ 2192/Days – 12/17/2019

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today is a special day marking the day 756 years ago that poetic peace pilgrim, Rumi, died, 116 years ago that 1st flight took place on the outer banks, it is the first day of the 9th year of dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude, it is the first day of the seventh year of  the daily practice of writing this ppp peace and it is… drumroll… the day of a flight of liberation for us all…

in honor of this confluence of riches, let us begin soaring into spaciousness with Rumi: 

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If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.

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what a day of  cosmic flight dissolved into the radiant light of Green Tara who comes when we call to clear all obstacles and relieve the suffering of all our relatives, a night of flying into the darkness, into turbulence and still soaring into open spaciousness trusting in the implicate order listening for the call of the wild emanating  from the womb of great silence…

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How could the soul not take flight
When from the glorious Presence
A soft call flows sweet as honey,
And whispers, “Rise up now, come away.”
How could the fish not jump
Immediately from dry land into water,
When the sound of water from the ocean
Of fresh waves springs to his ear?
How could the hawk not fly away,
Back, back, to the wrist of the kind
As soon as he hears the drum
The king’s baton hits again and again,
Drumming out the signal of return?
How could the Sufi not start to dance,
Turning on himself, like the atom in the sun of eternity,
So he can leap free of this dying world?
Fly away, fly away, bird, to your native home.
You have leaped free of the cage,
Your wings are flung back in the wind of God.
Leave behind the stagnant and marshy waters,
Hurry, hurry, hurry, O bird, to the source of life! ~ Rumi~

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happiest of turns ’round the sun and may this one be overflowing with love, liberation and luxuriating in each beautiful moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6/6 Years – Day 365/ 2191 Days – 12/16/2019

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six whole turns around the sun of flowing in beauty on the poetic peace pilgrimage which is quite simply breathing into presence, being the now, embracing what is and…

yes, today is a very special day as it marks six turns around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage, a breathing and being peace in every moment devocean i practice and it also marks eight turns around the sun of dwelling in the superabundance of infinite love and gratitude…

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pilgrimage of peace

a daily breathing practice

in rhythm with flow

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as i sit in the dream cave, the interior sounds of  water moving inspires re-membering all the beautiful moments of this journey of the heart, of  simply breathing into lovingkindness presence, being the now, embracing what is and…

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dancing in rhythm

with river of our being

opening to flow

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along this path of heart, this path of purification, this path of polishing the heart, we keep coming back with every breath, with every step into infinite love and gratitude, coming back home to the heart where we experience over and over again a…

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moment of peace

wildpeace flowing in ripples

dancing joyously

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how i love this practice of pilgrimage, being poet on an interior deep sea journey where we’re all walking each other home into our one heart…

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standing in the center

seeing in a sacred manner

all being as one spirit

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may we all be nomads in the sea

celebrating rainbow mystery

being harmony

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thanks for showing up with every breath and sharing the journey of awe and wandering in wonder, of purification, of polishing our one heart until it reflects our illuminated diamond being…

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flowing in beauty

in the field of divine grace

always being the soul of the place

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 364 – 12/15/2019

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“I can think of no other edifice constructed by ‘man’ as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve”. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~

standing as a lighthouse, Greta stands for herself and for the many of us dedicating our lives in the service of the one body we are… so, take a look at this image of Greta, of us as lighthouses, as beacons guiding the way through turbulent seas and rocky shoals to find our way home… on this day of celebrating the astonishing light of your being, take a moment to re-member all the times you have kindled the fire of the inner light for your self and others…

greta, like you, is an amazing breed of person, secure in who she is and her mission in life to which she has dedicated herself in the service of humanity, by singing a siren song calling attention to a dying planet… thank you, greta and thank you to all the gretas for courageous action on behalf of the planet…

may we all listen for and to the inner soul song being sung with every breath guiding the astonishing light of our being into loving, sustainable right actions for the good of the whole…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 363 – 12/14/2019

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holy synchronisiddhi! on this third day of nine days of the portal of stargate, the gateway of light, it is the feast day of st john of the cross, patron saint of contemplatives, mystics and poets… centuries ahead of the modern discovery of the unconscious, st john spoke of darkness, inner journeys, and the shadow self… his genius, his gift for the good of the whole was in living and speaking about the imperative, if we are to transform, of embracing the dark night of the soul and holding steadfast trusting in the benevolent great mystery to lovingly bring forth the light…

“The endurance of darkness is the preparation for great light.”

may it be so…