2019

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Jo Beall

today is known as World Kindness Day, like you, i see every day as world kindness day and love chanting/being lovingkindness every moment…

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“The first step toward living a happy life is to treat every other human with kindness. There are several steps after that, but I can’t remember right now.”

~ Dalai Lama ~

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here are several ways to celebrate, add your own, let’s make this an ongoing list in progress…

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*throw lovingkindness and appreciation like confetti

*pick up the tab for the person behind you in line

*share with friends the things you love about them

*deliver flowers to hospital patients

*hand a passerby on the street a dollar

*tell everyone you meet, thank you spreading an attitude of gratitude

*donate a copy of your favorite book to a library

*adopt a rescue animal

*volunteer in a local shelter or foodbank

*welcome every stranger

*pray for peace

*be gentle with yourself

*listen intently to everyone

*be a smile, a hug, balm this moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 331 – 11/12/2019

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Jo Beall

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…
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“Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the Source. Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature. The way of Nature is unchanging.” ~Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
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today is re-markable… on this final day of the potent portal of samhain fight before the moon in taurus waxed fully, i heard a bell and answered the call hearing my mother had taken her final breath as i have for the past twenty-four days, i began singing light into the darkness…
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may you be filled with loving kindness
may you be well
may you be peaceful and at ease
may you be happy
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over and over again this chant repeats providing safe passage between the worlds…
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may all our
relatives be filled with lovingkindness
may we all be well
may we be peaceful and at ease
may we be happy…
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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 330 – 11/11/2019

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Jo Beall

Exactly at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 101 years ago, people across Europe suddenly stopped shooting guns at each other. Up until that moment, they were killing and taking bullets, falling and screaming, moaning and dying. Then they stopped, on schedule. It wasn’t that they’d gotten tired or come to their senses. Both before and after 11 o’clock they were simply following orders. The Armistice agreement that ended World War I had set 11 o’clock as quitting time.

Each year, for a lot of years, there was a remembrance on November 11th. The U.S. Congress called Armistice Day a holiday to “perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations,” a day “dedicated to the cause of world peace.” When churches rang their bells at 11:00, that’s what they meant. And they meant it right up until the war on Korea, the one the North Koreans all still remember with shudders of horror. And then Congress turned Armistice Day into Veterans Day, and veterans into props for marketing more wars and a permanent state of war preparations.

~ David Swanson ~

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join with me on the 11th at 11 to chime bells 11 times commemorating the 101st anniversary of WWI’s end following that with a wave of three minutes of silence dedicated to all who died and to all who lived… and then, may we rise up singing and dancing peace…

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“The weary world is waiting for
Peace forevermore
So take away the gun
From every mother’s son
And put an end to war.”

~Al Jolson~

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let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and thee…

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namaste

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 329 – 11/10/2019

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Jo Beall

in addition to being the eve of 11/11 when we celebrate both the most potent day for manifesting dreams and the 101st Armistice Day, a day of celebrating peace worldwide when the first world war ceased, it is also the day of sharing an image of our astonishing lightness of being…

thankfully, a dreamtime image emerges, an image that has appeared at potent moments throughout my life to whisper words of wisdom, to paint the vast sky in rainbow colors of harmony, a guide that has been teaching me since i was a child of two…

according to pythia, psychedelic rainbow serpent living in the deep waters of the heart of gaia, the great secret of life is to be perfectly still, slowing down to a standstill perfectly poised in peace, breathing into the belly and out through the crown resting more deeply with every breath in the stillpoint of creation where there’s only the dance of rainbow mystery calling us to join in moving in the rhythm of peace prevailing on earth and thank you for letting it begin with me and thee until we are one wave encircling the cosmos breathing and being peace in every cell and thought, word and deed… yes!

may we take this moment as the moon waxes full to fill ourselves with loving kindness and peace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 328 – 11/9/2019

Posted on November 9, 2019 by Jo Beall

you have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy…

~ Buddha ~

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today, as i celebrate my maternal grandmother’s 131st birthday, i re-member year before last her birthday coincided in such lovely synchrony with the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the holy day of Lhabab Duchen, a festival of re-joy-sing in all acts of kindness for on this day Buddha descended from heaven to liberate his Mother and repay her many acts of kindness… this year, we need to put a one in front of the nine to get the proper date but who’s counting…

will you join me this moment in the caravan of re-joy-sing of my grandmother who was a scattergood and joy-ner by performing acts of compassion joyously and scattering all of the acts of kindness and goodness you bestow and all the acts that have been bestowed upon you…

today is a day to throw kindness around like confetti because we always need it, especially the unkind who need it the most…

so, yes, let us breathe in deeply through the stone people, our ancestors, right down through the deep heart of the earth coming home ready to choose love over power, compassion over fear and construction over destruction centered in our one true self, the self organizing intelligence of the ever expanding cosmos…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 327 – 11/8/2019

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Jo Beall

let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and thee…

we live in times of crisis… times of danger and opportunity, times calling us to summon the courage to take on the response ability of being peace, of exploring the hard places in our heart and softening, of being water washing over the rigid and melting it into healing flow…

for so many moons, i, like you, have been calling in wise leadership being catalyzed within our collective soul with a song of justice and true power…

Psalm 15

Lord, who can be trusted with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people’s trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.

(The Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)

may we contemplate and utter this song again and again, infusing the cosmos with a passion for justice overflowing our one heart with truth and compassion… all over the planet there’s so much suffering, all over the planet there’s so much love… yes, our work is cut out for us… to summon every bit of courage and stand in love for love again and again… in so being, we create a world of peace grounded in justice and guided by love…

will you join me in this moment, in every moment in a smile (start my internal love engine) of peace and breathe in deeply the boundless love all around us… informing us every moment is a teacher with a healing gift of grace for love is the most powerful medicine, the most powerful energy of all…

once we let peace begin with me, we can generously share this eternally renewable energy source with everyone and everything…

may we be bridge-builders, menders of brokenness, tenders of beauty in wounded places… in order to be whole, to be peace, we must accept every cell as the beloved, yes each of the trillions and trillions of threads of the web of life…

shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 326 – 11/7/2019

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Jo Beall

looking around, we are filled with gratitude

looking above, we are filled with wisdom

looking below, we are filled with compassion

looking within, we are filled with true nature

living as one in peace and harmony

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Song of Peace

We pray to the great Spiritual Power in which
we live and move and have our being.
We pray that we may at all times
keep our minds open to new ideas and shun dogma;
that we may grow in our understanding of the nature of all living beings
and our connectedness with the natural world;
that we may become ever more filled with
generosity of spirit and true compassion and love for all life;
that we may strive to heal the hurts that we have inflicted on nature
and control our greed for material things, knowing that
our actions are harming our natural world and the future of our children;
that we may value each and every human being
for who he is, for who she is,
reaching to the spirit that is within,
knowing the power of each individual to change the world.

~ Jane Goodall ~

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may it be so…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 325 – 11/6/2019

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Jo Beall

today, i want to spotlight a ceremony, the rite of the womb, sacred space for creation and those who share and hold space for it…

this ceremony comes from a lineage of women going back to the beginning of time who freed themselves from suffering and want this liberation for us all…. we are all to re-member:

the womb is not a place to store fear and pain; the womb is to create and give birth to life…

all means all, this rite is for all for we are all connected to the cosmic womb, the deep earth of pachamama and we are all born of a mother’s womb and we all have an energetic womb, our creative center at the 0 point, the stillpoint of creation…

so many of us hold such pain and fear and terror and anger here which is why we re-member:

the womb is not a place to store fear and pain; the womb is to create and give birth to life…

we nurture this rite and life by saying…

we release our fear so we may embrace freedom
we release our pain so we may embrace joy
we release our anger so we may embrace compassion
we release our sadness so we may embrace peace

such a beautifully simple way for us all to lighten up, to shine, to deepen into luminosity…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 324 – 11/5/2019

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Jo Beall

with every step today, with every breath, i bow to the beauty of the one who stands with grace in the center of the wheel holding space in a sacred way… in this place, she sees more than she can say and understands more than she sees… as she rests in stillness, she listens to the wind and knows in her heart, in our one heart, that we are hear to offer loving service to all our relations for we are one – one breath, one body, one being, one becoming…

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for the past fifteen hundred and ninety days, i have gathered with this extraordinary being of shining light in sacred communion to voice metta, lovingkindness blessings for all our relatives… each evening, we join at the threshold to offer ourselves and everything we are to the field out beyond… we envision the whole cosmos joining in and experiencing the true reality of oneness where we see all our relations as numinous love…

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invoking this divine light of grace every day is one of the most transformative paths i have ever walked; sauntering along this rainbow trail of devotion daily teaches and shows me the way of saging gracefully…

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on this very special day, the anniversary of your birth, i celebrate you with this blessing prayed every morning by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, a blessing you walk each day…

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May I be a guard for those who need protection

A guide for those on the path

A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood

May I be a lamp in the darkness

A resting place for the weary

A healing medicine for all who are sick

A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles

And for the boundless multitudes of living beings

May I bring sustenance and awakening

Enduring like the earth and sky

Until all beings are freed from sorrow

And all are awakened.

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deep bows and boundless love, beloved flow-er of beauty and soul of the space wherever your soles are kissing the earth, our one heart eternally smiles as we walk the spirit path together until all our relations are free of suffering, all relatives are liberated…

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always flowing in beauty and being the soul of the stillpoint space…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 323 – 11/4/2019

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Jo Beall

May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence. May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses. May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon. May you respond to the call of your gift and find courage to follow its path. May the flame of anger free you from falsity. May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and anxiety never linger about you. May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul. May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention. May you 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 ~

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ah! landing in portalandia after an otherworldly journey into a higher elevation encircled by mountain relatives holding vigil space in this portal of transition, of deep transformation bidding farewell to one cycle as we welcome another…

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will you join me in filling up with loving presence to the tune of…

may i be filled with lovingkindness

may i be well

may i be peaceful and at ease

may i be happy

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now! let’s extend the circle to those we love…

may you be filled with lovingkindness

may you be well

may you be peaceful and at ease

may you be happy

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and, now! let us wrap all our relatives in this blessing…

may we be filled with lovingkindness

may we be well

may we be peaceful and at ease

may we be happy

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thank you for this moment of breathing together…

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 –

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 332 – 11/13/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 331 – 11/12/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 330 – 11/11/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 329 – 11/10/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 328 – 11/9/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 327 – 11/8/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 326 – 11/7/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 325 – 11/6/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 324 – 11/5/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 323 – 11/4/2019