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You know the story. Breathtakingly beautiful woman, crosses paths with an unconscious ego and a spell is cast. A finger prick upon the spindle yields to deafening silence of nightmare screams, taking collateral the entire kingdom into throes of unconsciousness. Time passes, trees wither and scape turns to gray. Pain grips the man, to her betrothed, until its tolerance he can no longer bear. Finally, the divine masculine ascends to kiss the divine feminine and the entire kingdom awakens.

This awakening is pure and simple. There’s no need for pomp and circumstance. This story does it with a kiss. Dorothy clicked her heels. We entered Narnia with a thought. We remember the delight of a bed knob and a broomstick. The message is always the same - It is within.

As spiritual peacemakers we embrace and become simplicity. Through surrender, trust and gratitude, we are illumined, awakened and realized - our gifts to the world. We do this not by creating ambiguous rituals that scare some and perplex most but through our simple Being-ness. The essence of a spiritual peacemaker lies in remembrance of who we are.

There is no precedent event: no books to read, lectures to hear, candles to light, music to chant, places to go, meetings to hold, levels to climb, cards to select, die to roll, nor postures to strike. Spiritual peacemakers forego creations of bureaucracy on the path and embody the Truth, which is Simplicity. It can be no other way. Simplicity is our Being-ness, and our Being-ness is our Truth.

When sleeping beauty fell asleep, the kingdom became overgrown with thorns and thistles, weeds and burrs, smothering its beauty. Let us ascend the nonsense that hides the essence of the kingdom and declare, with love, “I Am That I Am” and awaken the kingdom with the sweetness, and simplicity, of a kiss.