George Floyd, Coronavirus and the Breath

Mony Dojeiji

As I look out on the world, I can’t help but reflect that the largest triggering events of these past months – coronavirus and George Floyd – have to do with the breath.

We can live without food or water for short periods of time (fasting). Some claim to live for years purely from the energy found in sunlight and all living things (the ancient practice of breatharianism or inedia).

But we cannot live without the breath.

It is our life force: our first act at birth, and our final act at death.

Many teachings and stories of creation make reference to the idea that we were breathed into being, that we were animated by the breath of God, given life as a demonstration of the most precious gift a God Love could offer its beloved child. So accustomed are we to this gift that we barely recognize it… until it is lacking in us.

Since I believe that the outer world is nothing more than a projection of my inner world, and I see that there are conditions that are literally taking our breath away, I have to ask myself:

What is happening WITHIN ME that is showing up as the inability to breathe?

What am I doing to suppress and oppress my own life force? To cut off my own breath?

I appreciate this is a hard pivot for many reading this, to look at myself as the SOURCE of what I am seeing in my world; but I believe the liberation and freedom we are seeking in the outer world must begin by looking at what’s keeping it covered in our inner world.

So how am I covering my own life force? How am I cutting off my own supply of oxygen, of vital nourishment? How am I suppressing the flow of all that gives life, joy, fulfillment, meaning, communion?

Every judgment, every criticism, every ounce of hatred that I hurl at another…cuts off my life force, which sees only love in another.

Every thought, every idea, every belief that I stridently defend that my gender, race, economic status, social status entitles me to certain privileges…. suppresses my life force, which sees all life as blessed.

Every decision that I make that looks after my needs and “rights” at the expense of everyone else’s… is an attack on my life force, which sees all life as equal.

Every time I neglect my God-given talents and enslave myself to a job that kills my spirit but gives me “security”… chokes my life force, because our spirits are inherently free.

Every time I clutch my purse a little tighter or cross the street when I see someone who looks different from me or move to another seat on the bus… is a tightening on the flow of my life force, which wants to close the gaps among brothers.

Every time I stop listening to my heart and start following my fears down their interminable rabbit holes…I squash my life force, which seeks only to express love.

Every time I tighten my iron grip on control and build walls around my heart, I choke the most powerful aspect of my life force and the purpose of life: to be one with my Creator, to surrender all, and simply rest in a love and forgiveness that restores all.

In all these ways, and more, do we cut off the vital flow of our life force.

So heavy and persistent and insidious are these attacks on our life force, is it any wonder that they show up in our outer world the way that they do?

As we slowly kill our spirits inwardly, we see the effects outwardly, playing out like a movie on the screen of our lives our deepest anguish and unbridled fury at our self-imposed enslavement.

Of course we can’t breathe!

We are trying to convince ourselves of a story of existence that we’ve been told that our souls simply know isn’t true:

That somehow we are separate from one another and, of course, separate from our Creator.

And with that story, we choke our life force.

Today it’s coronavirus and George Floyd. Tomorrow, it will be another pandemic or tragedy. But all of it nothing more than the playing out of a story so deeply buried in our subconscious that we are barely even aware of it.

That’s why the work of transformation is inner first.

That’s why this moment is so incredibly sacred. It is the time of our personal liberation.

We are shedding all that blinds us to who we truly are:

Brothers and sisters of one God, equal in its eyes, free, here to love, to unleash our glory and share our brilliance with the world.

We are also one with that God Love. It’s is impossible to be separate from God. Why?

Because every time we breathe, we are taking in God. We are taking in life, the precious gift bestowed by a loving Parent upon its beloved child.

In every breath is our rebirth.

Let us breathe in together, my friends, and let this breath – born anew in every instant – be the reminder of the truth of who we are.

Let our life force be nourished by this truth.

Love, always 🙏💖
Mony

P.S. Yes, you are welcome to share this message. 🥰

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UN-planning my Life

"Voyager", an Art of the Spirit original by Alberto Agraso

The greatest events of my life have unfolded with no planning on my part.

They’ve required my active participation, that’s for sure; but they’ve never been the consequence of any plans, goals, strategies, visualizations or even intentions.

There, I’ve said it! I’m an MBA who doesn’t strategize and plan. :-D

The most meaningful events in my life have happened because of the most difficult decision I’ve ever made:

Surrendering control. To Spirit.

This wasn’t an overnight process, and I was not a willing participant… at first.

I always had goals, personal and professional. It was how I lived my life. I moulded it to fit whatever ideas I had at the time of success and happiness.

All that changed with pilgrimage. The more I walked, the more I felt as if the entire Universe was screaming at me,

“Let go. Let me break down the hard lines in your thinking. Let me soften the black and white of your thoughts into greys that you can confidently traverse. Let me show you another way.”

My response was, “NO THANK YOU. I like my mind just the way it is!” LOL

But the experiences of that journey made me question every idea, every concept, even the very definition of what thought and mind are. Of who and what I am.

We all know that with enough focus and attention, the mind can achieve whatever goals it sets for itself. It’s a remarkable tool for that. But there’s a bigger question:

At whose service is this mind?

At the service of the whims of a self that always looks outwards for its satisfaction and sense of worth? Or,

At the service of the Highest Mind, the Mind of God?

This has been my journey these years after pilgrimage. To honour Spirit. Have it inspire thoughts that I alone cannot conceive. Open a heart often too fearful to walk in the unknown. Trust the inner light it’s growing in me to safely show me the way.

My mind still resists this process and insists on the futility of this venture: how will you live without plans, without goals? Where will your security come from? What about your child? At least think of her future! LOL

I’ve been bringing my mind to my heart. Giving it a seat at the table. And making it comfortable there.

A mind inspired by Love, at the service of Spirit, is invulnerable and a conduit for ideas that truly uplift the world.

How could they not?

This is a state of BEING that I cultivate. The breathing, the yoga, the walking, the meditation… they are the tools that keep me present. Aware. At peace. One.

Even as I write this, connections are happening that I never could have imagined. Ideas are bursting forth. New projects are coming my way.

Not by planning. But by UN-planning. And making room for Spirit to lead.

Step by step, my friends. Always further. Always higher.

Ultreia e suseia!

~Mony

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A Conversation with Death

"Befriending the Unknown" original illustration by Alberto Agraso

These last few weeks, the theme of death has been present in my life.

At Christmas, I received the memoir of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, a pioneer in shifting how we think about death and the dying. A day earlier, I had a conversation with a good friend about this same topic and her interest in becoming a death doula.

Two friends also died on the same day, Dec. 28. Both had their services and celebrations of life on the same day.

Sylvana is playing music from her latest favourite musical: Beetlejuice!

It’s a curious thing to be speaking of death at a time that celebrates a great birth.

My first thought was: am I dying? Is this my time? Is the Universe trying to prepare me? I also happened to be watching The Good Place at the time, so ideas around what it means to live a good life were also dominant.

It was so tempting to give in to the fear that the mere mention of the word evokes; but instead, I decided to speak with Death and ask her what she wanted to say to me. She is, after all, a messenger, and I wanted to hear her message.

“Every moment, you are dying. The very cells of your body are continuously dying and being replaced at the rate of millions of per second. MILLIONS of new cells every second! It’s a cause for joy, for celebration. You don’t fear this process. You don’t question it.

In truth, you are not dying but being continually reborn and regenerated, in every instant. As are your thoughts, your beliefs, your emotions… in every instant, all that you are is being reborn.

And what drives this process of regeneration, of continual rebirth?

Love.

It is Love that wishes to fully inhabit your body. To be home in you, here and now. To express its glory through you.

It is also Love that knows when it is time to return Home.

And I, Death, respect the wishes of Love and fulfill my part so that Love may continue its journey, freed from this physical realm that it chose to experience for a while as you.

So that it may finally find Home.

It always does.

Whether inside the beating heart of a beloved, or the Infinite Heart of our Father-Mother God, Love remains alive, a vital force in the Universe, going on adventure after adventure, on a journey that has no end.

For the sole/soul purpose of being Love. Being at home in Love.

You will finally understand that Death is Love too. We are One.”

~Mony 🙏💖

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Explaining the Art Exhibit "31 Illustrated Visions from Beyond the Veil"

Alberto Agraso - Beyond the Veil Exhibit

I have spent the past week immersed in the mind of my husband artist and illustrator Alberto Agraso LOL translating his explanations of each of the 31 illustrations of his art exhibit.
Every year, for the 31 days of October, illustrators from around the world participate in a daily challenge called "#inktober", where each artist offers their visual representation of the assigned word of the day.
For Alberto, the word begins the process of opening up to visions and interpretations that expand the word's meaning and allow a perspective grounded in Spirit to come through his pencil into form.
He channels messages from the Divine, and expresses them in illustrated form using only ink and paper. This is his Art of the Spirit, and what he is sharing in his art exhibit called:
"31 Illustrated Visions from Beyond the Veil"
Many of the images made me chuckle. All of them made me reflect, and appreciate more fully what a truly intuitive process this is.
I especially liked Day 16 "Purity", AFTER he explained it! LOL I had no idea what he was trying to say at first; and I continue to watch it over and again to pick up the many layers of messages on leading with the heart and the mind. Fascinating!
Day 18 "Annoyingly Happy" made me laugh! The title says it all...
Day 28 "Holographic Whale" was just WOW! How in the world did he capture an image that so powerfully shows moving from one state of consciousness to another?
And so many more!
As I stated before, these aren't just beautiful pieces of art from a talented artist;
They are channeled messages, visions from the Divine, that are in the form of an illustration.
I hope you'll check them out. I'd love to hear which ones you enjoyed. The Exhibit is up until Dec. 15 at Camellia Tea House (849 Nicholson Ave., Ottawa).
All the original pieces are also available for sale. Please email aagrasog (at) hotmail (dot) com for pricing and shipping details.
~Mony

The World needs more HEART-fullness

The world needs more heart-fullness.

Hearts bursting with love, compassion, brotherhood;

Which elevate the mind to its fullness;

Lead it to its sacred destination:

The Mind of God.

Where only inspiration exists;

All-possibility;

The one most perfect for you at this moment;

To receive;

Give thanks for;

And put into action.

In service to the world.

Let Love raise your every thought to its highest expression. 🙏💝

~Mony

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U.N. Day of Nonviolence and Gandhi's True Message

Today (Oct. 2) marks the U.N. Day of Non-violence and coincides with the 150th anniversary of his birthday.

So many things to admire about this man but, in this picture of him, I see in him a fellow pilgrim. Humility. Humanity. Perseverance. Love. Compassion.

While many reflect on his many accomplishments, I am drawn to these words from spiritual teacher and author Eknath Easwaran:

"Gandhi’s mission was not really the liberation of India. That was a tremendous achievement, but India was essentially a showcase, a stage for the world to see what nonviolence can accomplish in the highly imperfect world of real life. . . .

In today’s language, Gandhi gave us the basis for a technology of peace. He gave us tools for resolving conflicts of all kinds, which anyone can learn to use.

But it is urgent to understand his message that nonviolence is a way of thinking, a way of life;

Not a tactic, but a way of putting love to work in resolving problems, healing relationships, and generally raising the quality of our lives.

We don’t begin on the grand stage he acted on; he did not begin that way himself. He began with his personal relationships, aware that he could not expect to put out the fires of anger and hatred elsewhere if the same fires smoldered in his own home and heart.

His nonviolence is NOT a political weapon or a technique for social change so much as it is an essential art—perhaps the essential art—of civilization.

In other words, nonviolence is a skill, just like learning to read. Love is a skill. The transformation of anger is a skill. All these can be learned...

Finally, for spiritual seekers of all persuasions, Gandhi showed us that the spiritual life need not mean retiring to a monastery or cave. It can be pursued in the midst of family, community, and a career of selfless service.

Even without reference to spirituality, if we look upon the overriding purpose of life as making a lasting contribution to our family and society, Gandhi gave us a higher image for ourselves, a glorification of the innate goodness in the human being, whose joy lies in living for the welfare of all.

This is Gandhi’s ultimate message for us, and no sentence of his is more significant than when he says—and remember, this is a man who never let even a word stand if he did not know it to be true from his own experience—

“I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”

From the book: Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World (Nilgiri Press: 1972, 2011), 22-23.

May all beings know peace.🙏
~Mony

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Remembering 9/11

Photo: Andrew Kelly, Reuters

Most of us can recall where we were or what we were doing on this fateful day.

I was in Lebanon, fresh off the Camino, visiting my family after my grandmother’s unexpected passing. I had just come back from a girls’ shopping spree in Beirut and was stepping into the house when my phone rang. My best friend was crying into the phone, trying to explain these attacks in New York, and how I needed to get back to Canada right away because they were closing airports and talking of bombing southern Lebanon.

I went numb and, as I sat watching the news reports, only felt the horror of that moment.

But that day galvanized me, and placed me firmly on the path of action:

I would walk to Jerusalem for peace, and dedicate my every step to peace. Peace within me. Peace in Jerusalem, and beyond.

I reflect on this day often, on how easy it would have been to fall deeper into fear and shut myself off from the world. I saw that same struggle on the faces of so many people.

But I also saw so much grace and dignity, so much love and compassion, so many people refusing to bow to fear and to carry on, choosing to light the way rather than close off into the darkness. If there was to be a gift from this day, that would be it for me.

May all be blessed on this – and every – day.

~Mony

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Marianne Williamson - A Politics of Love

It’s very easy to speak your full spiritual truth with people who understand you.

It’s a whole other game completely to stand in the fullness of that truth before the world, naked, before those who do not.

To speak about the Way of Love in perhaps the most divisive of arenas: politics.

I’ve read many of Marianne Williamson’s books, and believe in the message she shares. The fact that she was able to articulate that message – and that she got to that stage at all – speaks to the awakening of that consciousness that is taking root in our world.

I also see it as a testament to the consistent inner work that I – and millions around the world – are doing of cleaning up and transforming the beliefs, programs, traumas, paradigms and FEARS deeply entrenched in my own psyche; of showing up every day, every moment, and facing those fears with LOVE; standing steadfastly in that Love so that moments like Marianne on that stage can reveal themselves to me/us.

She is an outer manifestation of the inner work (meditations, peace walks, yoga, etc.) that each of us is consistently doing, day in day out, in the stillness and anonymity of our own hearts.

I take great courage from her example; to not only continue the inner work myself, but to (in my own way) articulate what it means to walk the Way of Love, and to walk it fully.

Mony 💜

P.S. If interested, this is a 3-minute clip of her speaking from the Democratic Debates yesterday.

https://time.com/5616722/marianne-williamson-2020-democratic-debate/.

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Inquiry into MMIWG - Healing the Soul of a Nation

Digital Art by Janelle Richardson

Last week in Canada, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) presented its report to Canadian government officials. This Inquiry was set up to understand why indigenous women are so disproportionately affected by violence, why so many go missing or are murdered, and why the justice system has failed them at every turn. They called the events a genocide.

I watched the presentation, and felt witness to a watershed moment in Canadian history. When faced with painful Truth, I’ve observed that the mind either denies and attacks, or bows to the calling of the heart to heal. Those who immediately focused on the word “genocide”, arguing whether its use was legal or correct, showed they were incapable of bowing to that call to heal, yet. Their hearts aren’t ready.

But I believe the vast majority of Canadians are ready. They simply don’t know how.

We are a good, kind and decent people, who try to do the right thing, so it’s difficult for us to conceive of this happening in our own country; that our own elected officials and the laws they enacted enabled this. But until we are willing to acknowledge what happened, and the well of emotions this Truth has now evoked, then we will perpetuate this trauma and inhibit our ability to move forward as this great united nation we claim ourselves to be. It is a deep, painful, collective memory we all share. It is in our collective psyche as Canadians.

But it can be healed. It can be transformed, and become powerful wisdom to guide us forward as a nation. It takes courage, which I know we have. Our courage to do this work will liberate us and all involved from this trauma. It is only then that creative, inspired solutions for reparations can be considered. Only then can we become the “True North, strong and free.”

We have before us an opportunity (and obligation, I feel) to heal the soul of a country harmed by actions inspired by ignorance and fear, and power exercised without wisdom or compassion.

This is all inner work, which means we each have the power to do this. Now, we only have to be willing. :-)

What can I do? That’s usually the question. I didn’t do anything. I wasn’t here when all this happened. The government has the report. They’ll work on the laws and policies that need changing. They’ll pay whatever needs to be paid.

But reconciliation has nothing to do with money. This is not a financial matter, but an emotional, mental and spiritual one. We each have a role to play to liberate these energies within us.

How do we do this? What I share with you now is the inner work that I'm doing, what I'm saying to myself:

I take 100% responsibility for having this shared memory in my psyche. I may not have personally committed these acts, but I take responsibility for the fact that they happened in my country, in my history, by officials elected by me or my ancestors to create laws and policies that represented my values as a Canadian.

I take responsibility for the suffering they inflicted, despite the fact that this “was the accepted thinking of the time.”

I take responsibility for every mother, sister, aunt, daughter and child murdered or missing as a result of these laws. I take responsibility for all that they could have been… and never were.

I take responsibility for every disparaging thought and judgment I’ve had about indigenous people. I take responsibility for every moment I walked past anyone in need or looked the other way.

I take responsibility for the depth of emotions this has evoked in me, and wanting to bury them or ignore them.

That is my part in all of this.

Until we can see each and every one of these women as OUR FAMILY, our beloveds, then we will not grasp the heart calling to make this right.

I cannot change what was, but I have it within me to change what is… WITHIN ME.

These words I speak right now:

* To every emotion * running through me right now, from guilt, shame, horror, rage, disbelief, denial, helplessness…I see you. I see each and every one of you. This Inquiry is allowing me to see you, and for that, I say thank you for showing yourself to me. You are in me, so you are my emotions, no one else’s. I take responsibility for you, and say I am sorry. I love you. Thank you for the chance to liberate you. Thank you for the opportunity to be at peace, to have the chambers of my heart filled with peace. Thank you for the opportunity to now bring this peace into the world as inspired action, inspired words, inspired thoughts.

* To this memory * buried in my psyche that I share with all Canadians – a memory that is within me because I am Canadian – I say I’m sorry. I’m sorry that you are in me, in my country, in its people, in my land. Please forgive me, and all those who acted in my name, who had a hand in creating you. I know you don’t want to remain this heavy, dark shadow within me, lurking and unseen. You want to be in the light too. You want to be free. You want to shine. Thank you for the opportunity to free you, to bring you healing, to bring you peace. I see you. I love you.

I know I am connected to every other Canadian and human being on this planet and, in doing this work, I am not only freeing you within me, but doing my part to free you inside each and every person who has this memory in them too. In Canada, and around the world.

* To each and every indigenous * woman, girl and all her relations… to every victim… I am sorry for the pain that we inflicted upon you. I am sorry for all the wrong that we did to you. I’m sorry that we didn’t know any better. Without even realizing it, in harming you, we were also harming ourselves. We were losing our humanity. Please forgive us.

* My Creator *, I know I don’t need to ask your forgiveness because I am always loved, but I am sorry for my part in having this memory within me. I didn’t know any better. We didn’t know any better. I alone can’t do this work of transforming and liberating this trauma. I know you seek our highest good, and our continued growth into ever-greater versions of Love. I love you.

Thank you for liberating this memory within me, and all who may harbour it, in this country or another, this lifetime or another.

Thank you for this opportunity to grow in wisdom, love and compassion. Thank you the opportunity to apply this wisdom and love in service to all Canadians, to care for all, love all, and serve all, so that we may move forward as “the True North, strong and free” that we truly are.

Love is the most powerful force in the Universe and, with Love lighting the way, this is done.

And so it is. 💖🙏💖
~Mony

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Image by digital artist Janelle Richardson. She’s a member of the Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation and was born in Whitehorse, Y.T.to the parents Dorothy Washpan and Alvin Washpan. She was separated from her other 4 sisters who were all part of the 60's scoop era. She currently resides in the State of Georgia where she earned a Bachelors. Her youngest sister Tina Washpan a.k.a. Cindy Burke was one of the MMIWG of the Yukon. She dedicates this logo to her sister Tina, whom she never had the opportunity to meet, but will forever be in Janelle's heart.

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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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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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Rise: a meditation

From my meditation today... 🙏💝

Rise to your purpose.

Rise to the knowing of the fullness and grandeur of who you are.

Rise to your consciousness.

Rise to your connection with the Source of All, the Home from whence you came.

Rise to the power of the Love that created you, and that now engulfs you.

Rise to the Glory and Grace of your existence.

Rise, and take your place among the brothers and sisters of Light.

Rise to the fire, ardent within you: bold, courageous, fearless, loving.

Rise to Love.

Unabashed.

Unreserved.

Rise.



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Reflections on Mental Health

Today, with attention on mental health, I offer these words that came to me during my morning meditation. May they serve you in your personal journeys of love and expansion.

~Mony <3

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"You come seeking clarity of mind, when in reality what is troubled is the heart.

Your beautiful mind will always seek to make sense of deep truths that the heart captures first, understands first; and that the mind tries to interpret and give meaning to.

My invitation to you is to drop your attention to your heart, and as you so do, imagine your mind coming along for the ride.
Imagine your thoughts, your ideas, your concepts – all that you believe about who you are – dropping into your heart. Let them rest there.

Now look to your body. Where do you feel sadness? Where do you feel anxiety, fear, not-isolation, loneliness? Place your attention there, and imagine them all moving to your heart.

Why? Because the Highest Intelligence resides in your heart: the answers to all your questions, the peace you long for, the shelter from your emotional and mental storms.

Let your heart be the refuge for all your pain and suffering.

Breathe. Deeply. Fully.

On the breath, we infuse life to sustain you, love to nourish you, light to heal you.

Let your exhale be the confirmation that you have received life, love, light.

Keep breathing into your heart. Keep imagining your thoughts and your sorrows flowing like a river into a pool of infinite, ever-expanding light within you.

In this pool of light that continues to expand with every breath, all is held. All is forgiven. All is made right. All is transformed into wisdom and understanding, which you will now take as nourishment for your life journey ahead.

With every breath, the light in your heart expands, taking in even more thoughts and feelings. It’s a super-highway conducting (attracting) the pain and less-than thinking unto itself, transforming it into wisdom, transforming it into more light. You can’t help but grow in light with every breath that you take.

Do this for yourself. Breathe your thoughts and feelings into your heart. Over and again.

Do this for another. Breathe the light for those who at this moment can’t do it for themselves. Imagine it growing inside their hearts in the same manner it has grown in yours. Imagine the super-highway of light conducting all the sorrows and less-than thoughts into this magnificent pool of light.

And while your mind still clamours for clarity, we say to you that the journey from mindfulness to heartfulness is the greatest journey you will ever undertake. Your mind, we repeat, can only interpret what the heart knows as truth. As you expand your heart, you expand your mind (it becomes more elastic) and are now able to receive universal truths…which your expanded mind can now interpret from a more expanded perspective. Water cannot flow through a closed tube.

May these words bring you peace. We hold you in the warmest of embraces.”



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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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Pilgrim Story Hour w/ Mony Dojeiji - Walking Alone, a spiritual practice

Our life is a pilgrimage, with only one sacred destination: an encounter with our true selves. On that journey, we must learn to walk alone so that we may stand in confidence of the world, rather than in fear of it.

I gave this talk at Unity Spiritual Centre Ottawa. I hope you enjoy my reflections and stories.

Buen Camino!
~Mony


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I don't need to be right...

I don't need to be right.

I need to be Light.

#Inspiration for your day!

Bright blessings,
Mony


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The Author's Journey hosts Lindsey Barr

Community activist and author Lindsey Barr joins Mony to speak about her book "Plant a Garden of Kindness", and how she's using her platform to build resilient communities through active kindness, where children and families feel safe, included and supported and where children are empowered to effect change and make the world a better place (World-Changing Kids).

"If we teach our kids that it IS our responsibility to help, then (imagine) what could they do when they are the leaders?"

To learn more about Lindsey, visit her website http://worldchangingkids.ca.

Listen to PODCAST at https://soundcloud.com/mony-dojeiji/sets/the-authors-journey.

Thanks for tuning in!
~Mony

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