2018

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Jo Beall

there are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors…

~Jim Morrison~

i thought i was going to travel down a familiar path today and then life’s heartsong pulled me onto another path through a gateway into unitive consciousness… one of those journeys deeper into the heart cave, a journey of emerge and see, where you watch the tides and wait until they are going out so as not to be flooded and in the waiting trust is building… in the journey, in life, in flow…

yes, to breaking out of the shell, free from fixed prison walls…

and, to re-member in this moment, this beautiful moment…

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

– Buddha –

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in this moment, this beautiful moment,

greet yourself with elation

as you arrive at the threshhold, the doorway home…

smile and breathe in this wondrous stranger…

embrace yourself, reverence yourself, open your heart as wide as you can to yourself, to the whole youniverse…

sit, feast, luxuriate, dance your radiance

diving ever deeper into the ocean of love…

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this contemplation is a gift of love given to source in appreciation for the gift of life… may this gift bless all our relations and expand and return a thousand thousandfold blessings…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 181 – 6/15/2018

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Jo Beall

feeling in rhythm with the sun today

slowing down, standing still, listening in a deeper way

floating under a cloud into the heart cave

breathing at the frequency of the cosmic compassion wave….

blessing the space of grace where we interbe

transmitting lovingkindness without words, communing silently

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and for this moment, let’s be the space of grace…. smiling to start our internal love engine, let’s reach out our hands to one another to pass the love around the world and as we breathe in deeply through our one one heart feel our belly, our core, our heart cave expanding as we chant together…

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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may we be at peace

may our one heart remain open

may we realize the beauty of our true nature

may we know the astonishing light of our being

may we be a source of healing for all…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 180 – 6/14/2018

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Jo Beall

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

~ Pema Chodron ~

What is Freedom?

But it’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for this is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.

Excerpted from:

Living Beautifully

with Uncertainty and Change

by Pema Chödrön

pages 6–7

trusting the journey of divine mystery…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 179 – 6/13/2018

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Jo Beall

drawing down the energy of today’s new moon of truth, a familiar soul question lives me… what is breaking your heart, breaking your heart so completely that the heart breaks wide open… a rush of images floods the banks of consciousness…

for nearly 150 years, Lady Liberty has welcomed to our shores the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free… now, this poem is being rewritten to say that when those fleeing oppression come to our shores we will treat them as criminals and snatch away their children and replaceingLady Liberty’s torch with a pair of handcuffs…

we are called to be a wold of peace built on justice guided by love… it begins inside of me and thee… and there is so much support activating outer action… families belong together is holding a day of action tomorrow, will you join me in living our mission?

let us revisit the truth of Lady Liberty…

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

~ Emma Lazarus ~

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Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of ‘them’ and ‘us’ and think of our world much more in terms of a great ‘US’, a greater human family.

~ His Holiness, the Dalai Lama ~

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Love Your Neighbor… #Keep Families Together…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 178 – 6/12/2018

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Jo Beall

peace is in the air – are you feeling it? this moment, this historic moment is one of celebrating peace… today, two world leaders met for the first time ever, shook hands and agreed to a pledge of no more war that will come in the form of a peace treaty ending a conflict of seventy years… following the meeting, Trump and Kim also pledged to recover the remains of American prisoners of war and those missing in action from the Korean War… this commitment was one of four plans outlined by the leaders after their historic summit, where they promised to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula…

on the eve of the new moon, a new day dawns, peace seeds are already sprouting filling the air with the fragrance and frequency of peace…

peace is in the air…

in the eternal chorus of the ocean singing to the cliff,
in the silent whisper of the stones,
in the coyote howling to the moon,
in the twinkling eyes of children,
in your beloved’s hand holding yours,
in the smile of a stranger,
in the good, the true the beautiful that one can witness all over the planet

peace is in the air…

may we all celebrate our collective dream of peace coming alive this moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 177 – 6/11/2018

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Jo Beall

drawing down the energy of the darkening almost new supermoon in gemini, the moon of trailblazing, of listening to the soul song, of leaping in faith, fledgling aria reminds me of an old story from africa…

When a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come.

And when the mother is pregnant, she teaches that child’s song to the women of the village, so that when the child is born, they will welcome her with that song.

And when the child goes through the rites of puberty, they come together to sing that song.

And when the child falls, or hurts its knee, they will pick it up and remind her of the song.

And when the child crowns a noble achievement, they will celebrate with that song.

And if ever … along the way … the child gets swept up in the world and loses her way, the villagers will come together and remind her of her song.

And finally, when the child passes away, they will honor her life by singing the song.

as we pause on the precipice of a new moon journeying into the unknown, may we sing courageously…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 176 – 6/10/2018

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Jo Beall

happy astonishing light of being day! falling on a day of cold rain, still i feel the field of radiant sun love in this re-TREAT weekend of being with my wildly exuberant, enthusiasm on steroids grandpuppy whose love lights the whole sky just as yours does… thousandfold thanks to all relatives for the radiance of your presence, for this moment of puppy consciousness, pure presence, of re-joy-sing in the gift of the ever turning life cycle of the birth – death – rebirth mystery present in every breath…

For Presence

Awaken to the mystery of being here
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.

Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.

Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon.

Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to
follow its path.

Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.

May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame.

May anxiety never linger about you.

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of
soul.

Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek
no attention.

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 ~

thanks be for the radiance of the central sun always shining…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 175 – 6/9/2018

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Jo Beall

today, as i contemplate the old story of there’s a spirit in everything, Rilke’s words arise organically as do Michelangelo’s…

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

and even more emphatically when he says…

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

aren’t these words all an excellent instruction manual on how to align with great spirit, rainbow mystery, the one heart, creative process, authenticity?…

yes, listen, listen, listen ever more deeply to our heartsong… release the spirit of the wise pilgrim navigating the journey, the genie always within every bottle/body…

and then, may we all proclaim, free at last, free at last…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 173 – 6/7/2018

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Jo Beall

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
– Kahlil Gibran –

May I Be a Guard

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 the sky
Until all beings are free from sorrow
And all are awakened.

Prayed every morning by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

these words quoted above inspire today’s contemplation of how to hold space for the benefit of all that is…

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~ Wendell Berry ~

may we all rest in grace and in the presence of still water and in the peace of wild things…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 172 – 6/6/2018

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Jo Beall

i awaken today with the clear intention that inspires a forty day purification in preparation for a bearing witness pilgrimage to memorialize suffering and transmute the trauma residues into creative compassion… the clear intention is seeing beauty in everything, being a holding container, a beholder, a hollow reed of love and peace and joy…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, we savor and offer thanks to sky and earth and sun and moon and stars and ocean and to beloved for breathing us alive…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, we listen to beloved’s hum as we gaze into her flowing mirror pulling us home to the heart ever more deeply…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, we answer beloved’s call to return to the stillpoint of equanimity where we live in harmony…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, we breathe in the rhythm of the waves infusing every wild cell of our one body with radiant love…

in this beautiful moment…

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 –

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