“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been… Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”

~ Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player ~

in this moment of eternity of celebrating the astonishing light of our being, let’s close our outer eyes and tune in with our inner vision to the eternal flame within as we follow our breath noticing how our breath is in rhythm with the waves of life, with the tides’ ebb and flow, the waning and waxing of the moon, the changing of seasons all inextricably interconnected with the rhythms of mama gaia’s breath… breathing in and breathing out… love… light… as we continue to breathe in from Pachamama, notice if there is any tension in your body and if so, shake it off and get all loosey goosey… breathing in deep relaxation into the body, breathing out an ecstatic ahh… breathing in, I smile… breathing out, i start my internal love engine…

now, let’s go deep inside to connect with where we carry our soul light… do you feel it in your heart? crown? 3^rd eye? throat? soular plexus? belly? root? Take your time… it may look like a beautiful candle flame, a burning ember, a flashlight, a lantern, a whirling vortex of pure white light… however your soul light appears and feels, rest assured it is always shining brightly…

now, look very closely at your light and see silver threads emanating from your soul light… we are going to follow these threads finding any and all fractures and splinters to heal, to whole, to bless and bring home… look for the threads and follow them back and back and back through all dimensions… you may find 2 or 3 or several hundred, simply follow them looking at each one closely, healing it, blessing it and bringing it home one after the other and notice with each fragment returning home into the circle of unconditional love how your soul light is brightened a thousand fold with every fragment that returns home… the healing happens so quickly with each thread so happy to be re-woven into the gr8 tapestry of soul light that is more and more luminous with every re-union… take this moment and luxuriate in the warm embrace of the astonishing light of your being,,, re-member, you can return here any time – we are the eternal radiance, we are the luminous shining ones we’ve been waiting for…

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

~Hafiz of Shiraz~

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

~Albert Schweitzer~

it’s our moment in eternity to celebrate the astonishing light of our being on this day when the state of Louisiana in the USA is being pummelled by Hurricane Ida just as Houston was on this day four years ago… it’s also another day in afghanistan when beautiful children, like the one in this picture, are being killed in afghanistan and yemen and somalia and on and on with adults in leadership misusing their power by not putting the welfare of the children first, by not being mindful of the seven generations…

so, let’s join hands feeling the energy of love we are passing from one to another to another to another and with each passing around the unbroken circle, the vibration of the divine light of love geometrically progresses as we re-member who we truly are and how we are to be…

may the eternal flame of your inner light be constantly kindled both from within and by other relatives throughout the cosmos who love, serve and re-member…

yes, i am home tonight after what feels like a long/short, eternal/immediate journey to the great beyond within and without… i come home after being cut off from outer world news to hear disturbing happenings of martial law being mysteriously enforced in the city where i live, a scenario i’ve long felt (since even before day one) as a very real possibility with the current administration… portalandia is rising to this injustice, this affront to democracy with great heart reminding me of another passage that happened over these days of being rebooted… Two of our great civil rights activists moved over to the other side camp…

i will catch up on what’s happening right here and now and i will honor John Lewis and CT Vivian and in this moment on this day of celebrating the astonishing light of being , i’ll concentrate on the true refuge we all share in every moment – coming home to our one heart where we real-eyes i am because you are, we all belong to each other, no one is free until we all are free….

may we all open our one heart wider and wider as we listen more and more deeply to the call of the inspirited soul to live each moment as if it’s our last in a life that goes on forever and ever… boundless love…

well come to this moment of acknowledging the astonishing light of our being, a light we have seen shining so brightly over the last three weeks, a light that has been shining since the beginning of beginningless time, a light calling us to listen, listen, listen to the soulsong singing our one body to come home to the heart, to the present moment, the only moment…

so many shoulders supporting us, such a boundless circle, a communion, a common union, our one body, yes, we are so created for these times… what follows is one of the thousand thousand fold expressions of this living truth of the astonishing light of our being…

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We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For

You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?

Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for your leader.

Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

~ Hopi Elders’ Prophecy, June 8, 2000 ~

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let us rise and deepen into the call for life, liberty and justice for all in our every thought, word and deed with every breath and step… and so it is… blessed being the astonishing light we are…

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…

welcome to this week’s sharing of an image of the astonishing light of being…

this moment, this day such a rich and riotous flurry of communion deepening into heart to heart conversation…

so much light streaming from the heavens and earth bathing all our relatives in the buoyantsea of all is well…

deep bows…

welcome to soaring september and the astonishing light of your being weekly segment…. i’m breaking tradition – yes, Yes, YES! – to not start the month in the usual way and to listen to the fierce love message to see the beauty in everything that emphatically calls to be expressed…

so, yes, Yes, YES! You Are So Beautiful!! Take this moment, this beautiful moment to breathe in your beauty and breathe it out with an exuberant YES!

today, i celebrate six years of living Hell YES! when something arises and i’m resonating wholeheartedly, hearing/feeling/sensing in every wild cell Hell YES!, i go for it full steam ahead… this practice grew organically from a practice begun almost eight years ago of saying thank you to everything that arises… of course there are many things that confound my mind as to why be thankful for that which is the beauty of the practice and is like contemplating a koan… it is a tried and true path for opening the heart this saying thank you, this saying yes, Yes, YES! Hell YES!

breathing in, feel something positive… breathing out, say yes… breathing in energy, breathing out yes… breathing in peace… breathing out yes…

may we whisper yes, Yes, YES with every breath…

listen with me now to what the inimitable Charlie Chaplin heard singing him on his 70th birthday…

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Love Prayer

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering

are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.

Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody

as I try to force my desires on this person,

even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it,

and even though this person was me.

Today I call it “RESPECT”.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life,

and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.

Today I call it “MATURITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance,

I am in the right place at the right time,

and everything happens at the exactly right moment.

So I could be calm.

Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.

As I began to love myself I quit steeling my own time,

and I stopped designing huge projects for the future.

Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness,

things I love to do and that make my heart cheer,

and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm.

Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything

that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations,

and everything the drew me down and away from myself.

At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.

Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right,

and ever since I was wrong less of the time.

Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past

and worry about the future.

Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING is happening.

Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me

and it can make me sick.

But As I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.

Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.

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may we all walk in a sacred way today and every day with each breath a new beginning, each moment a walk in beauty with all our relatives traveling as one along the rainbow trail deeper into great mystery’s sacred web…

“Surrender to this light, this Divine consciousness, this Divine joy, and this Divine peace, the victory of Love and the glory of life. Allow and bring this light into the whole body, the conscious mind, the subconscious, and unconscious mind. Through this Love you’ll experience the fullness of life.”  ~ Sai Maa

today is quite a day of celebration and holy synchronicity – our day of the astonishing light of being and the victory day of navaratri and palm sunday when jesus made his triumphant entry into jerusalem…

all three of these celebrations speak of the alchemical pilgrimage we are all on to be who we are – the divine energy of light and love and liberation which is our birthright, our purpose…

may we all journey on the cushion of palms, of psalms, of prayers into the silence of the stillpoint at the core of being…

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

~Hafiz of Shiraz~

yes, let us all re-member who we are… light waves born of  the great light weaver… moments of great suffering and injustice can call forth the re-sources embedded in the core of our being… relatives, let us join together as one with our ears to the ground listening, listening to mama gaia’s heartbeat drumming throughout the earth… resounding truth of the Star Goddess, the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven, whose body encircles the universe:

“I who am the beauty of the green earth and the white moon among the stars and the mysteries of the waters,

I call upon your soul to arise and come unto Me. For I am the soul of nature that gives life to the universe. From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return.
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold — all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

And you who seek to know Me, know that your seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.”

may we bathe together in the illuminated radiance  of love lighting every imaginal cell of cosmic being to walk as partners a path of courage, of great heart, of soul connected to source cooperatively, collaboratively, compassionately, wisely and peacefully living the truth that being in harmony, in right relationship with all wild cells of our one body is the way, the truth and the astonishing lightness of being…

such a wealth of riches to celebrate on this next to the last day of awakened april, a quintessence of events mirroring the five elements… it’s the full moon in the water sign of scorpio, and it’s lunar beltane when we celebrate the midpoint between equinox and soustice with fire rituals letting go of what no longer serves and it’s our moment to celebrate the astonishing lightness of being by breathing in the air, the whispering wind inspiriting us and breathing out the light transmuted into love… it was arbor day on friday and the tree of life seems so perfect as an image for the lightness of being and he abundance of the earth of being and such a beautiful symbol of the element of ether, of love, unconditional love…

trees, our breath, teach us generosity as mothers of nourishment creating one vast network of trillions and trillions of roots intertwined as one, flooding the struggling with juice, receiving the dying standing talls’ marrow…

not i, only we, this network of generosity, this unfolding synarchy… let’s breathe in deeply filling ourselves with each  breath and letting go/ surrendering/softening through our soles with each outbreath…

smiling, we come deeper and deeper home with every breath… allowing… accepting… embracing

 feeling our soles on the warm, mossy, forest floor syncing into the soil below while our limbs are outstretched toward the sky… we open deeply to pure presence as we bathe in the stillness and dance in the forest field…

let’s bow deeply to all our relations thanking each other for the sacred circle of life we are…

always being love…

namaste’…