Any pilgrimage to the Japanese Garden is pure zen with every moment being peace, every breath peace and after yesterday’s scorching heat and humidity, thunder and lightning’s foreshadowing of refreshing rain moving in today was welcome relief to humanoids and another beautiful moment in water world…
This moment and every moment i’m accompanied on the journey with a child named Bliss. Without her this moment and every moment, i would not find the courage to take another step. I owe her my all, in return i devote each breath to her as we rock gently in the waves of creation. May we all care for the children of the earth and be the compassion they deserve…
as the Capricorn full moon illuminates our oceanic depths
see us united in a communion of PEACE
dancing under the cosmic turtle moon
looking into the great shining mirror
listening to the call of the wild
always being love
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“The spiral labyrinth is one of the oldest of symbols; it depicts the way to the unknown center of death and rebirth, the risk of the search, the danger of losing the way, the quest, the finding and the ability to return.”
Edmond Whitmont, The Symbolic Quest
I see this image and am immediately transported down a labyrinthine path in a split second to a mosaic tile seahorse i made as a young child and dearly loved. My family of origin made a pilgrimage long ago to the land of flowers which is where i got the tiles in iridescent colors to make the seahorse and where i danced with dolphin. Today i re-member with a SMILE something so magical… being pure innocence living in wonder… I come home to lxuriate in awesomeness…
An amazing day of nonstop conversing, living with, being central sun… directly plugged into source with full intention and attention… a day of being the soul of the space and vibrating with the multiverse at the frequency of our one heart… traveling in the company of such a divine communion of beings resonating love… pure bliss…
the pilgrimage today is one long conversation, a living with and from the heart, a rocking the baby day of deepening in the cradle of boundless love and resting in ever flowing grace of all is well…
In his own words…
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
May we all breathe his Blessing of Peace deeply through our one heart.
His parting words leaving Portland:
“I’m always mentioning that mentally, emotionally and physically we are the same human being. So the potential which I have and that I use – you also have that same potential. You must realize that potential and utilize that potential as much as you can. Then you will be a happy person and live a meaningful life.”
In the spirit of summertime, let’s listen to the wisdom of children, both inner and outer as we walk the path with heart and open ever wider to the pure innocence of being…
Happy 200 Days of Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage on the 238th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a day i’ve been celebrating as Interdependence Day and Inner Dependence Day, a day of realizing we are one, of being peace and love… At the most basic level the Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage is a daily practice of breathing deeply through our one heart…
today’s pilgrimage, the third day of being radical joy, is precisely that – a day of meeting the divine in all with whom i connect… a day of swimming in the sea, leaping wholeheartedly into the quantum field and dancing across the sky into the great beyond… thanks for sharing the journey…