2019

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Jo Beall

Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.

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for this weekly installment showing you the astonishing lightness of your being, please re-member that you matter, that you can make a difference and we so need each other to be of courage, of strong heart when all over the planet, life is out of balance and we know we must change the dream we’ve been living… when we listen to the indigenous, the people of the land who listen to the all that is, we hear the clarion call to love our mother and each other… water, air, trees, sun, moon, stars, all our relatives, and we are all relatives, woven together intricately, inextricably, interconnectedly…

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we can all feel we are at a tipping point, a sacred space with birth pangs so intense… the now! moment when we must band together, stand together in love, throw off the illusion of separation, re-member the reality that we are one…

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yes, let us take courage and be of strong heart, awaken the dream of the world we all share and long to real-eyes… a world of peace built on justice and guided by love…

may we band together for this shared vision…

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thank you for being the one of a kind person you were born to be and shining your light so radiantly like a lighthouse illuminating the stormy sea so we can traverse the pathless path with equanimity coming home to our one heart to live forever free as a wanderer of wondrous rainbow mystery…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 321 – 11/2/2019

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Jo Beall

a poem comes to me, it comes circuitously… written as a rituwell celebrating cosmos creation, it seems perfect for this day following all souls day of honoring the ancestors and sending them back into the night sea to watch over us as we emerge and see… sounding and re-sounding the words, we breathe in life, this now moment of interbeing and breathe out life, this now moment of interbeing in a seamless circle… birth to death to rebirth to death as one organic whole… join me in simply being, breathing, bowing, dancing and flowing in beauty as the soul of the space wherever we are in this wild and precious now! moment…

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Ancestor Prayer

When you were born,
The earth became your body,
The stone became your bone,
The sea became your blood,
The sun became your eye,
The moon became your mind,
The wind became your breath.
When you passed to the Otherworld,
Your breath became the wind,
Your mind became the moon,
Your eye became the sun,
Your blood became the sea,
Your bone became the stone,
Your body became the earth.
When we were born, you did the same for us:
You called forth the earth and rocks;
The sea arose and the sun descended;
The moon shone down and the winds sang.
For those who come after, we shall do as you did for us
When we are gone, we shall do as you did before.
Ancestors, we honour you.

Rev. Michael J Dangler

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another delivery today for this now! moment, a blessingway for our ancient earth mother…

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In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
Útmutató a Léleknek

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 320 – 11/1/2019

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, relatives, to this new moon (month) of namaste, nesting, numinous, now on steroids november… a moon, a month to take a long pregnant pause in the cauldron of transformation luxuriating in being here now in the present moment of this powerful portal of samhain when the veils between the realms are thinned with heart openings in the vast sky sea for us to enter and float in the river of re-membering beginning with this auspicious date… 11/1 which is a trinity of ones, a day when you can feel the communion of saints, the company of heaven, the bright and shining ones…

let’s take this now moment to conspire, to breathe together, to let go fully getting down to bare bones, shedding the skins of conditioning, simply breathing into now, this wild and precious moment of presence with nothing to do and nowhere to go , simply be now here…

with our next breath, listen to the breath flowing through, animating us, expanding our being and feel the golden light of the cosm showering us, pouring in, hollowing in, flooding all the arteries and veins in the deep river below the river flowing within…

let us take one more breath together in the river of now re-joy-sing in the place where spirit lives, re-joy-sing in the space which is of love and light and peace and truth, re-joy-sing in the sun and moon and stars above, re-joy-sing in the fire and earth and water and air, re-joy-sing in the river below, re-joy-sing in the center within, re-joy-sing in our recognizing ourselves in each other re-membering we are one, onederfilled heart…

namaste…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 319 – 10/31/2019

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Jo Beall

dancing in the dark

seeing spirit everywhere

ancestors guide us home

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on this very night, it is known to those initiated in great mysteries that both the souls of the trapped will be freed and that the inverse reality of souls serving the other side of the underworld will come topside to create their own ability to remain amongst the world of the living… this gateway creates an opportunity to repent, clear karma, raise consciousness and return to love once more…

great homage is given to the ancestors who come and go through the making of potions and preparation of food made for both the living and for those loved ones who have passed and are unable to participate in the physical expression of ingesting the libation offerings…

the celebation of samhain, all hallows eve, all hollows eve and the energies of this profound portal represent the veils of consciousness thinning within us, our hollowing, hallowing and our ability to transcend darkness and density into light as we metaphorically bubble in the cauldron of transformation with the potions where we move from death to rebirth in a sangha field, true refuge in the rains’ deluge… sacred space built on compassion, generosity, harmony and lovingkindness with a mission to eradicate all suffering… in this place devoted to honoring the ancestors while serving all with every breath a practice of dharma, every breath an exhalation of love, we arrive and come home to our one heart living with all in harmony…

may we all breathe together… may we all breathe together more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender into the creative process of love where we are all walking each other home into the heart of the present moment, the only moment, the all that is… may we all breathe together in perfect cosmic harmony where all is well eternally…

love, love, love from this night of the dark from whence we all come and will return…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 318 – 10/30/2019

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Jo Beall

the pacific northwest provides a perfect backdrop today for the eve of all hallow’s eve, an ancient celtic fire festival known as samhain, dia de muertos, howloween… a season for leaping into the void and welcoming the oncoming darkness and accompanying reflection cycle while honoring the spirits now present during the thinning of veils between upper and lower worlds… yes, the pacific northwest serves as a perfect backdrop with her blustery winds and earth softened soil ready to receive divination and other worldly communications in this season of letting all fall away, of coming home to quintessence, coming home to the present moment, to the breath of eternal life…

when we surrender to this natural movement of our soul, we can and must bring forth pieces of the personal and collective shadow that need to come into the light for healing, evolving, becoming… yes to letting the hallows dance of life begin!

howlelujah! we celebrate however you name this day as a witching hour calling for culling, releasing, co-creating changes in consciousness/weaving magic… in this liminal space, we prepare the nest for the birth of the new, a sacred space for us to be like shedding snakes or trees… shedding our old skins or leaves and resting in the dark while the fire turns to ash and is spread on the earth to germinate the new…

a day to reflect on what to die to, what to let go of as we embark on a journey of trust and surrender into the unknown… a day to connect with ancestors and the unchanging wisdom of the sages…

a day to dance in the dark, in great mystery… a day to surrender to the rhythm of eternity… in truth, there is no separation… no veils, no closed doors, no locked gates… today, let us release limitation and loosen the sail of imagination… let us valorously sally forth and stand unconditionally in a gathering of boundless love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 317 – 10/29/2019

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Jo Beall

fifty-seven years ago on this very day, the cuban missle crisis came to an end with a collective sigh of relief that our better angels had prevailed, in deed, fear was reborn as courage, our one heart opened expansively…

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today, as everyday, the astonishing light of interbeing presences our lives as we welcome this moment as openly as a hollow reed… bearing witness, mourning injustice of the world, take compassionate actions of waging peace and lovingkindness, returning to the cosmic rhythm of harmony, re-membering and celebrating our turning lead to gold…

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Do not be daunted
by the enormity
of the world’s grief.
Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated
to complete the work,
but neither are you free
to abandon it.
~ The Talmud ~

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let us perfume this moment of deep descent into the portal of transformation with

the ancient words of the ho’oponopono purification chant:

i’m so sorry

please forgive me

thank you

i love you

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and now, may we rest in…

SWEET DARKNESS

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
It’s time to go into the night
where the dark has eyes
to recognize its own.
It’s time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you
can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will make a home for you tonight.
The night
will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

David Whyte

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may hope wipe away our tears of sadness and faith dissolve our fear…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 316 – 10/28/2019

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Jo Beall

can we cleanse our inner vision until we see only the light?

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practice not-doing and everything falls into place…

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yes, after a day of wandering into wonder, i have arrived, i am home… in the present moment, the enspirited soulful self…

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in the present moment, the only moment

free of fear, opinion, judgement, rigidity, history…

open, a hollow reed one with creativity creating creation

on fire with curiosity, loving unfolding mystery, listening to still waters drawing us deeper and deeper, witnessing vast cosmic sky more and more expansively

home to the heart of presence

the stillpoint of creation

where there’s only

dancing mystery

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thanks for walking home together…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 315 – 10/27/2019

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Jo Beall

such a trifecta of riches with its being astonishing light of being day and the lunar samhain new moon in scorpio which coincides with diwali, the celebration of the light within…

today as we open to the lamp of our one heart being lit by a thousandfold lights, i begin an openhearted journey through portals transporting from the sea to the mountains guided by love…

so, join with me in sauntering into the unknown with our soulful self as compass to map the way…

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in this moment, this eternal moment, breathe in deeply earth mother’s love…

standing silently in her sacred heart center, breathe out expansively to the skies above

listen intently as the wind whispers soulfully, singing us home to the river below

in this moment, this eternal moment, open with abandon to the fire of inner glow

always present lighting the way, always present every moment of the day

great mystery, thank you for breathing us into presence…

thank you central sun for coloring the cosmos in rainbow arcs of radiant love surrounding us, bathing us, transmuting us into pure light essence

radiant beings of the great turning…

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may we take this moment and every moment to fill ourselves with the love of earthmother for this light dissolves all impurities alchemizing lead into gold…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 314 – 10/26/2019

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Jo Beall

it’s the eve of the new moon in scorpio, lunar samhain, the transformation moon when we enter the portal of smahain with the veils so thin for the next couple of weeks…

what a perfect moment to plant seeds that will blossom and grace the new path… the moment to look inside deeply and ignite every wild cell into luminous light… and a perfect moment for dancing in the void…

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Each day has a moment of eternity waiting for you.

Each day has a portal, a threshold, a liminal moment in which everything could open up and reveal itself to the eye that can see.

~ William Blake ~

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such a day it is in the land of portals as we approach the dark time of the turning… the moment when the eye sees better and the veils are thin, eternity is nearby, revelation is at hand… nothing to hold onto, simply be open to what is in this moment, the only moment, the eternal now…

may we all face the darkness in reverence bringing us to greater presence…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 313 – 10/25/2019

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Jo Beall

on the heels of celebrating United Nations Day, Global Oneness Day and as we enter the samhain portal, may we continue to stand together in love and hope re-membering ourstory is built on compassion, sacrifice, courage and loving kindness…

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Let our standing be a mindful gesture: mindful of the ground on which we are standing, the one little plot of land on this earth not belonging to one nation, but to all nations united. It is a very small piece of land, indeed, but it is a symbol of human concord, a symbol of the truth that this poor, mistreated earth belongs to all of us together.

As we stand, then, like plants standing on a good plot of ground, let us sink our roots deep into our hidden unity. Allow yourself to feel what it means to stand and to extend your inner roots.

Rooted in the soil of the heart, let us expose ourselves to the wind of the Spirit, the one Spirit who moves all who let themselves be moved. Let us breathe deeply the breath of the one Spirit.

Let our standing bear witness that we take a stand on common ground.

Let our standing be an expression of reverence for all those who before us have taken a stand for human unity.

Let us stand with reverence on the ground of our common human endeavor, joining all those who stood on this ground, from the first shaper of tools to the engineers of the most complex machines and institutions.

Let us stand with reverence on the common ground of the human quest for meaning, side by side with all who ever stood on this ground in their searching thought, in their celebration of beauty, in their dedicated service.

Let us stand in reverence before all those who on our common ground stood up to be counted, stood up – and were cut down.

Let us remember that to stand up as we have now stood up implies a readiness to lay down one’s life for that for which one stands.

Let us stand in awe before those thousands upon thousands – known and unknown – who have laid down their lives for the common cause of our human family.

Let us bow our heads. Let us bow our heads to them.

Let us stand and bow our heads, because we stand under judgment.

We stand under judgment, for “One is the human Spirit.” If we are one with the heroes and prophets, we are also one with those who persecuted and killed them. One with the henchmen as we are one with the victims. We all share the glory of human greatness and the shame of human failure.

Allow me to invite you now to focus your mind on the most inhuman act of destruction you can find in your memory. And now take this, together with all human violence, all human greed, injustice, stupidity, hypocrisy, all human misery, and lift it all up, with all the strength of your heart, into the stream of compassion and healing that pulsates through the heart of the world – that center in which all our hearts are one. This is not an easy gesture. It may almost seem too difficult for some of us. But until we can reach and tap with our deepest roots this common source of concord and compassion, we have not yet claimed within our own hearts that oneness that is our common human birthright.

Standing firm, then, in this oneness, let us close our eyes.

Let us close our eyes to bring home to ourselves our blindness as we face the future.

Let us close our eyes to focus our minds on the inner light, our one common light, in whose brightness we shall be able to walk together even in the dark.

Let us close our eyes as a gesture of trust in the guidance of the one Spirit who will move us if we open our hearts.

“One is the human Spirit,” but the human Spirit is more than human, because the human heart is unfathomable. Into this depth let us silently sink our roots. There lies our only source of peace.

In a moment, when I will invite you to open again your eyes, I will invite you also to turn in this Spirit to the person next to you with greeting of peace. Let our celebration culminate and conclude in this gesture, by which we will send one another forth as messengers of peace. Let us do this now.

Peace be with you all!

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amazingly, this prayer was not created for yesterday’s day of action but was led by Brother David Steindl-Rast at a gathering of spiritual leaders at the 30th Anniversary of the United Nations, October 24, 1975.

let us stand together in love for love re-membering our birthright is of compassionate lovingkindness…

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 322 – 11/3/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 321 – 11/2/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 320 – 11/1/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 319 – 10/31/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 318 – 10/30/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 317 – 10/29/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 316 – 10/28/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 315 – 10/27/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 314 – 10/26/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 313 – 10/25/2019