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Walking for Peace, an inner journey

Today, I begin reading our book WALKING FOR PEACE, AN INNER JOURNEY.

Chapter by chapter I will read, and post it all in the YouTube folder (below). Here is the full Playlist.

There is a power in speaking words out loud, in speaking the stories rather than simply reading them.

I hope you will take this journey with me, and enjoy these stories.

All my best,

Mony

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June - my Birthday Month - Reflections

Every year, as we enter June – my birthday month – I become reflective. I ask myself:

Where am I at, on all levels? Am I being true to the highest within me? Am I listening to the voice of my heart, or only that of obligation? Am I still walking the path of love that I keep talking about?

I can confidently say that this past year has been about standing fully on the spiritual path I undertook long ago, and placing it front and centre in all that I do.

Not allude to it. Not make subtle reference to it. Not couch it in pretzeled words.

Stand fully in it. Let its wisdom define my steps.

This has truly been my journey since the day I returned from pilgrimage, and began sharing the stories and experiences. There's a battle that has continually waged within me between the “professional” world and the “spiritual” world:

How do you bridge these worlds? How do you speak from the heart and be taken seriously in a professional setting? How do you remain loyal to your truth and BE an instrument of love when the world around you seems to trivialize that?

Those have been the big questions that I and Alberto have grappled with.

What I now know for sure is that there is only the inner journey. The outer world is a manifestation of all my inner longings and limitations. There is nothing "out there".

I see so clearly now that whatever shows up is a loving opportunity to see the wounds within me that are clamouring to be healed, the entrenched beliefs that seek to be transformed back to love, the thoughts that need to be elevated back to their divine essence.

I have also seen how this way of being transforms every opportunity and interaction I define as "professional".

For a while now, I have felt a tide rising within me that can no longer be contained… and that I do not wish to contain.

I believe this is not only happening to me, but all around me, in the discourse we are now seeing in all areas of life ( social, political, economic, etc.) on the importance of placing love front and centre in all that we do, that it may light our way forward as one human family and guide us to our inevitable awakening in consciousness.

It's an exciting time to be alive, and to participate, in my own way, in this awakening.

I’ll be making more concrete announcements shortly but, for now, I want to thank you for being on this magnificent journey with me as I too explore what it means to be love in this world and to continually pour it forth.

All my love 🙏💖
Mony

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Doing the inner work: a practical approach (WORKSHOP)

Good morning everyone!

This is a workshop that I have been wanting to do for a while, and that I'm grateful to be collaborating with Unity Spiritual Centre Ottawa on.

Spiritual traditions speak about the illusory nature of this world: it's not real. It's all a dream. Maya. A cosmic illusion. A projection of our inner world.

But it sure does look, feel and sound real!

How can I be responsible for what is happening in my world? I'm just sitting here minding my own business :-)

What power do I have - if any - to change anything in this world?

Using my own stories and stories from the group, I'll be sharing what each and every one of us can indeed do to liberate ourselves from debilitating thoughts, beliefs and emotions that play out in our reality, over and again. Individually and collectively.

The purpose and goal of this inner work is FREEDOM. TRANSFORMATION. LIBERATION.

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
--- From Marianne Williamson's book A Return to Love

I hope you can join me.

Sunday May 5. 12:30PM to 2:00PM.
670 Albert St. (Ottawa)

Suggested donation of $20.

Ample free parking.

~Mony





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New Zealand Shootings

Me speaking at The Aylmer Mosque

These are the words I spoke at The Aylmer Mosque, where the community gathered to remember those who were killed during the New Zealand attacks. It was an honour to be invited.

May they serve in our continuing journey of expanding consciousness.

Please feel free to share.
~Mony

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"Al-salam-alaykum.

When I sat to meditate on what to say this evening, my mind was demanding for me to answer:

How could anyone do this? Why? What could have possibly driven him? I felt the rage, the impotence, the injustice, all of it…

And then, I breathed, and became very still. And in the stillness, I understood.

My mind will never have enough answers that will satisfy it… or bring peace to a heart shattered in a million places.

I don’t know the answers.

But a higher mind does know. God - Allah - knows.

And in the stillness, I heard whispered: What is YOURS to do?

So, I reflected on that…what is mine to do?

I can’t look into the heart, mind or soul of the man who did this, but I can look into mine.

I can look at the hatred, anger and fear I have in my own heart… and do the work of healing it.

I can look at my judgements, my intolerances, my beliefs that keep me separate from the “so-called other”… and make peace with those.

I can do the work of putting together my own broken pieces….

And I can do this with the faith that in lifting myself out of my own darkness, I am also lifting out of that darkness the “other”.

This is ALL within my power to do. In fact, it is the only thing within my power to do: to choose what to think, how to act and what to believe.

And, today, I believe in the Way of Love – no matter how my mind protests and demands justice and retribution.

The Way of Love challenges me to see the Divine Light in the person I want to label “monster”; to know that the same Hand of Grace that created me also created him… which means he is my brother. And he is on the same journey – like all of us – from dark to light, from ignorance to understanding, from fear to love.

The Way of Love encourages me to make peace with my own demons, and find peace in my own inner world, so that I can bring it to my outer world.

The Way of Love invites me to PUT Love at the throne of my heart, so that it may guide my thoughts with Wisdom, and my steps (and deeds) with Compassion.

On the day I was invited to speak here, I was reading a poem that I deeply treasure, which coincided with the UN's International Day of Poetry. So I’ll take those as good omens to share this poem with you, written by the great Sufi poet and philosopher ibn Arabi.

'Before today, I abandoned my friend, if my religion did not side with his.
Now, my heart embraces every design:
The pasture for gazelles, and convent for nuns,
The temple for idols, and Kaaba for pilgrims,
The tablets of the Torah, and Book of the Quran.
For it is the religion of Love that I now follow…wherever its caravan may wander.
For Love is my religion and my faith.'

Thank you."

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Being in Conscious Relationship

Relationship is a sacred gift, and opportunity. Beyond love and companionship, a partner in a conscious relationship with you can unlock doors to healing and spiritual growth unlike any other.

I met Alberto in Finisterre, when we had each walked our Caminos alone. I already had the idea to walk from Rome to Jerusalem, again alone. Imagine my surprise when we ran into each other, three months later, as I was on my way to Rome! Our relationship began then, as pilgrims sharing the path, then as companions, friends, lovers and today, parents.

In this talk at Unity Spiritual Centre Ottawa, we share the story of the journey of that relationship, and what we have learned walking together in our seventeen-year relationship .

Thanks for liking and sharing!
~Mony and Alberto



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Shine On!

Mony Dojeiji

Those of you on this path of awakening with me know that the journey is not usually a straight line.

Often, what you thought was fully healed comes back under a different guise to confound you. The fear and hurt that you were confident had been brought back to love surprise you with their ferocity and persistence.

If we - as individuals - find our journey to wholeness arduous, imagine what it must be like for a family, a community, a nation.

So, we keep on keeping on, putting one step in front of the other, celebrating the positives and the gains, strengthening the bridges to the heart, pouring love into every crack, baring our souls to the world. We walk on. We shine on.

It's a good day to be alive...

~Mony


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My message on Election Day in the U.S.

To my American friends today:

I love you.

No matter who you vote for. No matter what you believe. I see YOU. And I love you. <3

That is my mantra for the day.

~Mony




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Making Peace - the way of Ho'oponopono

For those of us on the path of unfolding Spirit, it may at times feel as if the world of Spirit and the world we witness are indeed worlds apart. The divide appears to be expanding, with few means of bridging or reconciling that separation.

How can we live in the world, and love it?

In this talk at Unity Spiritual Centre Ottawa, I share some thoughts on how to do just that.

It all begins within.

~Mony







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Tale of the Eagle and the Chicken

I’m not sure if you have heard of the tale of the eagle living so long among chickens that it believed itself to be a chicken. There are several variations, but this is one I like:

“A fable is told about an eagle who thought he was a chicken. When the eagle was very small, he fell from the safety of his nest. A chicken farmer found the eagle, brought him to the farm, and raised him in a chicken coop among his many chickens. The eagle grew up doing what chickens do, living like a chicken, and believing he was a chicken.

        A naturalist came to the chicken farm to see if what he had heard about an eagle acting like a chicken was really true. He knew that an eagle is king of the sky. He was surprised to see the eagle strutting around the chicken coop, pecking at the ground, and acting very much like a chicken. The farmer explained to the naturalist that this bird was no longer an eagle. He was now a chicken because he had been trained to be a chicken and he believed that he was a chicken.

        The naturalist knew there was more to this great bird than his actions showed as he "pretended" to be a chicken. He was born an eagle and had the heart of an eagle, and nothing could change that. The man lifted the eagle onto the fence surrounding the chicken coop and said, "Eagle, thou art an eagle. Stretch forth thy wings and fly."  The eagle moved slightly, only to look at the man; then he glanced down at his home among the chickens in the chicken coop where he was comfortable. He jumped off the fence and continued doing what chickens do. The farmer was satisfied. "I told you it was a chicken," he said.

        The naturalist returned the next day and tried again to convince the farmer and the eagle that the eagle was born for something greater. He took the eagle to the top of the farmhouse and spoke to him: "Eagle, thou art an eagle. Thou dost belong to the sky and not to the earth. Stretch forth thy wings and fly." The large bird looked at the man, then again down into the chicken coop. He jumped from the man's arm onto the roof of the farmhouse.

        Knowing what eagles are really about, the naturalist asked the farmer to let him try one more time. He would return the next day and prove that this bird was an eagle. The farmer, convinced otherwise, said, "It is a chicken."

        The naturalist returned the next morning to the chicken farm and took the eagle and the farmer some distance away to the foot of a high mountain. They could not see the farm nor the chicken coop from this new setting. The man held the eagle on his arm and pointed high into the sky where the bright sun was beckoning above. He spoke: "Eagle, thou art an eagle! Thou dost belong to the sky and not to the earth. Stretch forth thy wings and fly."

This time the eagle stared skyward into the bright sun, straightened his large body, and stretched his massive wings.  His wings moved, slowly at first, then surely and powerfully.  With the mighty screech of an eagle, he flew.” [1]

Its message is clear, but I only recently realized its significance for me. My last name, depending on how it’s pronounced in Arabic, can mean chicken. The first time I saw an eagle, it was just after I had quit Microsoft and was in the mountains of Washington State in a workshop to figure out the next steps of my life. I thought it a magnificent coincidence to see an eagle soar by, and refused to consider it as an invitation to accept Eagle as a totem. After all, I thought, who am I?

The second time, a few months later, I was in the same location when, this time, the eagle landed a few meters away from me, as if defying me to accept its call.

So here I was, the chicken, being invited to fly, to remember that it is an eagle, and refusing to do so.  How many of us have done that?

We are all eagles, called to so much more: called to soar, to lift our gazes beyond our current circumstances, to see with the eyes of the heart, to believe in our own grace and beauty.

Hold on to that, no matter what the voices around you, and within you, keep saying.

Follow your call, and blaze with the light of a thousand stars.

With love,

~Mony

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[1] (Walk Tall, You're A Daughter Of God, by Jamie Glenn [Deseret Book Company: Jamie Glenn, 1994], pp. 22-4.)