“Pilgrims on the Path of Love”*
You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you
Were born, and did not know.”
Hello, dear folks.
I greet you this week with some wild, crazy energies, as I prepare myself for a journey.
I return to Assisi, Italy, where last year, my heart profoundly blew wide open through the beauty and awe of that blessed city.
I stop, I ponder.
I find myself resisting using the word pilgrim.
It’s a shyness that emerges as I consider that.
An embarrassment.
Yet, truly, it is the accurate word.
I go as a pilgrim, to discover the parts of me readied to be reunited.
I go as a pilgrim to allow the parts of me needing inspiration and wonder to be renewed.
If you read this today, you too, are a pilgrim.
We are all pilgrims, as Swami Kripalu said,
Pilgrims on the path of love.
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Speaking of Pilgrims on the Path of Love, here is a meditation, from my heart to yours. How easy it is to divert our attention to others, to skip over ourselves. In this, my version of Metta Meditation, we start with the self, always on the platform of Self. And from there, we connect to others.
Here are the words.
May I be healthy.
May I be present.
May I ride the waves of my life.
May I live in peace,
No matter what I am given.
May you be healthy.
May you be present.
May you ride the waves of my life.
May you live in peace,
No matter what you are given.
May we be healthy.
May we be present.
May we ride the waves of my life.
May we live in peace,
No matter what we are given.
~~~
And for our hearts, here is Sinead O’Connor, oh, what brilliance, what a tortured and extraordinary soul.
Here is Sinead in all her passionate presence.
Thanks, Dan, for sharing her with us.
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One step at a time,
May we walk
Our own path.
One breath at a time,
May we practice
Listening within.
One moment at a time,
May we connect
To the world
Around us
With
Heart
And
Breath
And
Hope.
One step at a time,
May we walk
The path
Of
Loving-Kindness.
And when we are not able,
May we bless
Ourselves
And
Keep
Walking.
Stay blessed,
Aruni
Next week, pictures from Assisi!
* Swami Kripalu