2019

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Jo Beall

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

a day of journeying into the unknown, letting go of the path well trodden to walk beside the river of the beyond and face the challenge of rising up and shining forth in the wilderness…

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

a day of standing tall and seeing through and letting go with an open heart…

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

a day of giving up control to open to a greater power, nobility of spirit authoring the way home…

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

may we all shine brightly in the wilderness as we walk each other home along the pathless path…

more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 311 – 10/23/2019

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Jo Beall

how i love spending this moment, every moment, of our one wild and precious life gathering the sweet nectar… join me?

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…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 310 – 10/22/2019

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Jo Beall

CONSIDER THE TREES WHICH ALLOW THE BIRDS TO PERCH AND FLY AWAY WITHOUT EITHER INVITING THEM TO STAY OR DESIRING THEM NEVER TO DEPART. IF YOUR HEART CAN BE LIKE THIS, YOU’LL BE NEAR TO THE WAY.
~ Zen Saying ~

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how i love this way of living the standing talls model, this way of greeting everything as a guest, this way of crossing over the rubicon of conditioned existence and intobreaking free, of crossing to the far shore, the shore of the open field of the sacred heart, the one heart beating in rhythm with, the one web we all live in, the tree of life sheltering every cell of creation…

living in harmony with what is… this bubbling cauldron of mess and beauty and chaos and coherence and uncertainty and clarity, of missing the mark and being in the sweet spot and everything in between stretching us, be-wildering us moving us, shifting us into a more expansive spaces, deepening our experience of timeless presence, of real-eye-sing we are intricately and intimately connected in this interdependent breathing imaginal cell floating in an infinite sea…

on this day of stopping the ordinary world to enter more deeply into the timeless present moment, our one wounded, softened heart is to meet and greet each moment, each fragile, dynamic moment as openheartedly as we can muster… like this tree, may we be a place of true refuge for all relatives seeking sheltering arms…

to inspire living like trees and closer to the way of love and compassion, let’s listen to the sage wisdom of an 11th century Tibetan monk…

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Eight Verses for Living Love and Compassion

~ Geshi Langtri Thangpa ~

By thinking of all sentient beings
As more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel
For accomplishing the highest aim,
I will always hold them dear.

Whenever I’m in the company of others,
I will regard myself as the lowest among all,
And from the depths of my heart
Cherish others as supreme.

In my every action, I will watch my mind,
And the moment destructive emotions arise,
I will confront them strongly and avert them,
Since they will hurt both me and others.

Whenever I see ill-natured beings,
Or those overwhelmed by heavy misdeeds or suffering,
I will cherish them as something rare,
As though I’d found a priceless treasure.

Whenever someone out of envy
Does me wrong by attacking or belittling me,
I will take defeat upon myself,
And give the victory to others.

Even when someone I have helped,
Or in whom I have placed great hopes
Mistreats me very unjustly,
I will view that person as a true spiritual teacher.

In brief, directly or indirectly,
I will offer help and happiness to all my mothers,
And secretly take upon myself
All their hurt and suffering.

I will learn to keep all these practices
Untainted by thoughts of the eight worldly concerns.
May I recognize all things as like illusions,
And, without attachment, gain freedom from bondage.

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may we all live as openhearted as our tree relatives, the standing talls…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 309 – 10/21/2019

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Jo Beall

Bodhichitta is our heart—our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. This love is bodhichitta. It is gentle and warm; it is clear and sharp; it is open and spacious. The awakened heart of bodhichitta is the basic goodness of all beings.

~ Pema Chodron ~

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today is one of those oxygen masks days when the need to return to self by breathing into the belly, the wisdom space is a requisite… somehow, i feel it’s so in rhythm with the turn of the wheel as we enter the darkest part of the year in the northern hemisphere, a mystical season, where we may feel the darkness as sanctuary and it may bring up fear and discomfort because of what is unseen which can trigger feelings of disorientation and danger…

trauma exists here in our innermost caverns as layers of heartache and as we welcome each of these visitors by opening our heart, we liberate ourselves and the collective…

this sacred sojourn of descent, this magickal mystery tour leads to transformation when we hold the tension and surrender into our softened heart…

may we always come home to the heart, to the garden of peace, being present in the moment, in the presence of the beloved resting in the stillpoint, the unchanging, taking a silent still pregnant pause in the moments of feeling so stretched and uncomfortable right before the crowning… in this moment of presence, open more fully to birthing the new, surrendering to nature, to love and creating from this sacred space… YES! to full blooming lotushood…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 308 – 10/20/2019

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Jo Beall

thousandfold thanks for all the weird relatives, creative rebels, imaginal cells of real-eye-sing… those astonishing lights of being who rekindle our flame by setting their lives on fire and fanning the flames of all relatives in the openhearted field…

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– Beatitudes for the Weird –
by Jacob Nordby

Blessed are the weird people
—poets, misfits, writers, mystics
heretics, painters & troubadours—
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes

Blessed are those who embrace the intensity of life’s pain and pleasure,
for they shall be rewarded with uncommon ecstasy.

Blessed are ye who see beauty in ugliness,
for you shall transform our vision of how the world might be.

Blessed are the bold and whimsical,
for their imagination shatters ancient boundaries of fear for us all.

Blessed are ye who are mocked for unbridled expression of love in all its forms, because your kind of crazy is exactly that freedom for which the world is unconsciously begging.

Blessed are those who have endured breaking by life,
for they are the resplendent cracks through which the light shines.

from Blessed Are the Weird – A Manifesto for Creatives

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praise to all angels of light whose eyes flash like lightening
born from the tear of compassion
praise to all angels of light, with faces like moon’s lighting the sky…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 307 – 10/19/2019

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Jo Beall

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

did you awaken as i did in this heart space to this moment re-membering the universe in each moment is making us an irresistible offer? thousandfold thanks, Desiree, and everyone for conspiring to gift with so many moments of savoring this potent space between us of initiating the cosmic wedding and weaving the threads of eternal presence into the lush field of the divine matrix… an infinite moment after moment, truly, of love after love…

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

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 306 – 10/18/2019

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Jo Beall

every outbreath an emptying, every inbreath a re-membering and living the quest ion of how to be our one wold and precious life…

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Rain/Tears

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falling from the heavens above

kissing the earth gently with love

soaking into every cell

awakening our re-membering all is well

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today, we cross the bridge to meet in a field on the north side of the river serving as seeders of the divine matrix, Einstein’s unified field.. in making this pilgrimage, i feel as if i have walked thousands of miles from one country to another connected only by a bridge, a bridge connecting everything, a bridge demonstrating we are one unified, radiant field of love…

yesterday, we were called to die to everything, today we are called to breathe life, to breathe love into everything with every thought word and deed…

may we be open, organically present in the emptiness of now, in this moment, in every moment, to what is as the love we are…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 305 – 10/17/2019

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Jo Beall

today, as the sun shines on the hexagram of veneration, i re-member and venerate this being born eight years and a day before my birth… being cancerian crabs, we also share a love of water, today calls me into the field of water crystals to honor his life on the anniversary of his death and seeing that date brings up an image of the occupy movement of eight years ago inspiring my occupying the abundance of infinite love and gratitude, now known as dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude…

so many synchronicities, so many interconnections as i gaze at this water crystal called love and thanks, letting Dr Emoto’s words on gratitude perfume consciousness…

i aspire to being the embodiment of gratitude and practice daily with a continuous loop of thank yous as one of the most transformative acts on our way to being shining…

thank you, thank you, thank you, Masaru, for opening us to water’s hidden messages…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 304 – 10/16/2019

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Jo Beall

the miracle is to walk on earth in a sacred way as a free and easy wanderer of wonder breathing in the rhythm of the waves dwelling deeply in the present moment feeling every wild cell humming with abandon in the inner quiet of the stillpoint…

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today i awaken to being a free and easy wanderer, that liberated state of being the pathless path magnetically pulls us to dance…

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A MIND THAT HAS NO WALLS, THAT IS NOT BURDENED WITH ITS OWN ACQUISITIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, WITH ITS OWN KNOWLEDGE, A MIND THAT LIVES TIMELESSLY, INSECURELY – TO SUCH A MIND, LIFE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY THING. SUCH A MIND IS LIFE ITSELF, BECAUSE LIFE HAS NO RESTING PLACE.
– JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –

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traveling widely and deeply through outer space and inner space to a place beyond words… a place of being, homecoming, one with the tides of life… walking a path of devotion… always being love… always being thanksgiving…

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every inbreath a re-membering we ar spirit beings on a journey into great mystery calling us to look within and see true reality – we are one vast interbeing with each cell belonging to each other…

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may we all be birds in flight soaring in wide open spaciousness flowing like the mighty river below the river as a dynamic current of restorative joy…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 303 – 10/15/2019

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Jo Beall

there seems to be something so potent in the rhythm of the autumnal web of life, especially around the ides, mid-month… each turn around the sun at this moment i feel the collective dark night, the collective trauma reaching feverish pitch so intensely and spilling into the personal realm… as the full moon of the stormy seas and global dark night cast a shadow across the cosmos, i’ve been experiencing a mini dark night, profound loss in a brief moment until i act like a squirrel by gathering the quintessence and calling in Porcupine Goddess to share an ancient wisdom story illuminating the place i and we find ourselves…

long ago, in the coldest winter ever, many of our relations were dying… we of the porcupine council met and decided we’d nestle together to keep warm and stay alive… alas, we were warm but the quills of our neighbors were wounding us, so we decided to separate from each other to relieve the hurts of living in close quarters… although now we were protected from being wounded, we began to die one by one, alone and frozen cold… faced with our extinction or living as wounded porcupines, we chose wisely – deciding to return to being together… we learned to live with wounds caused by being in close relationship to receive the greater benefit of the warmth that comes from others. this way, we were able to not only survive but also to thrive; to flourish in regenerative cycles organically arising from the harmony sung by the implicate order…

may we be as wise as our porcupine relations real-eye-sing interdependence, the way of the openheart, is the way…

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 312 – 10/24/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 311 – 10/23/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 310 – 10/22/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 309 – 10/21/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 308 – 10/20/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 307 – 10/19/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 306 – 10/18/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 305 – 10/17/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 304 – 10/16/2019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 303 – 10/15/2019