On the road from Boquete, Panama 1/27/2014

Note:  I leave for Panama, City by bus on Wednesday the 29th and on to Havana mid-day the 30th.  More on the road from Cuba as time and opportunity allow.  

 Why Is Love the Way

Eskimo Nebula - NASA

 A simple answer is nothing else has worked.   Wars, violence and suffering of all kinds are still with us.   It is time to look at it anew,  "with the eyes of the heart. "   The good news, many are.   There is hope.  


Peace Pilgrim who walked penniless across America for years was my inspiration for riding a bicycle for peace. .  She had a very simple message:   The Way of Peace is the way of love:  overcome evil with good, hatred with love, and falsehood with truth.   It is an old and timeless message.  It is what Jesus taught.  We have tried everything else but its consistent application.

I have found it helpful to think of  Love as energy,  powerful, self giving, sacrificial,  beyond words to ultimately describe from a finite perspective.  Yet it is knowable intuitively through the heart reinforced by experience.   It is the stuff of the mundane and poetic.

  "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.  Rumi
 

Love is Divine power.

Carolyn Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit

Love is one of,  if not the most powerful energies in the Universe.

Tom Kenyan

Love does not insist on its own way.  It bears all things, endures all things, it never ends.

The Bible

Love impels it does not compel.  There is nothing that can overcome it.

Love conquers all things:  let us surrender to love.

 Virgil

Love is the energy of unity - coherent, positive, high frequency vibration or energy.

Love has the power to drive out or transform incoherent, low frequency, negative energies that alienate and separate us from ourselves - fear, hate, anger, envy and the like.  Nothing else can.

 Tom Kenyan .

Love is heart centered energy, not of the ego dominated consciousness.

Love is the way to enlightenment through the heart.

Love is the Divine essence interpenetrating all things, making all things sacred. Various

Love is our True Nature, the essence of who we are,

Anam Thubten

Love in its perfection casts out fear.

The Bible

Love is the way to inner peace and joy.
 

When your chest is free of your limiting ego. Then you will see the ageless beloved.  You cannot see yourself without a mirror.  Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.

 Everything in the Universe is within you.  Ask all from yourself.  Rumi

If you do not go within you go without.  Victor Frankl

 Wine Throated Hummingbird 
by Pixdaus.com

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. John Keats

Love and beauty intertwine and speak to me of things Divine.  Peace Rider  

GAIA

A Story

Once there was a beautiful lady young, virginal, vibrant and full of life.  Time past.  She gave birth to many children.  The children grew and prospered. They took care of their Mother.  They understood that the one depended on the other for their well being.  They were One.

These children bore more children. They scattered to the four winds.  In time they lost touch with where they had come from and what sustained them.   The link was broken, they were separated from their Mother.  No longer did they see their welfare and that of every living thing around them as intertwined.  This understanding was lost to them.

More children came.  Instead of sharing the bounty of the land as before they hoarded it each to themselves.  They fought among themselves over trivial things.  They cooperated only if it was in their best interests.  Many had more than what they needed to survive.  They believed the more things they had the happier they would be.  They lived off the fat of the land while many more had much less than what they needed.  They and their children lived in poverty and died of disease and malnutrition.   This was accepted as just the way things were. 

In time their Mother's health began to decline.  She became worn and haggard not vibrant like of old.  The air she breathed was fouled by pollutants her children produced.  So long had this been going on that her disposition changed.  Her mood swings and behavior became more violent.  Some were alarmed at what they were witnessing.  There were naysayers who denied it was their fault.  They did not realized her heart was failing for this alone was not all they had done.  In fact, their Mother was slowly dying.  They did nothing to stop it.  Most could not see it.  They believed there was plenty of time, when time was running out. 

Peace Rider