I pray for peace
I pray for love
I pray for you.
I pray for health
I pray for wealth
I pray for you.
I pray for harmony
I pray for strength
I pray for you.
I pray for this world
I pray for our family
I pray for you.
I pray for clear vision, unbounded courage,
and an open heart
I pray for who we truly are in the light of life,
and who we can be – even here, even now
I pray for you.
I pray for you
I pray for me
I pray.
Aliana Alani (c) 2013
Within this world of sun and shade, sol y sombre,
reside magical moments, the duende of life.
Often tucked within the cloak of contrasts and opposites,
sometimes hidden from conscious view,
they hover like resonant keys
to golden doors
of long awaited stories.
Available to each and every one of us if we will but listen
and then dare –
to taste the fruit of their knowing,
drink from their cup of unlimited possibility,
luxuriate in creation’s abundance,
and know it to be our own.
Aliana Alani (c) 2013
I am the drop in the ocean.
I am the sea and the wave.
I am the sky and the starlight.
I am the weak and the brave.
I am the moment before you.
I am the time when you’re gone.
I am the breath when it enters.
I am the world’s sacred song.
I am the heart of all matter.
I am the dance of all life.
I am the love that lingers
Midst the chords of everyday strife.
I am You.
Aliana Alani ©2013
Life is a series of moments. Precious pearls dashed along the shores of our hearts. They can get buried by the sands of time or cherished by the light of love.
Love each as if it was the door to infinity. Walk their roads with delicious delight. Lo and behold, soon your garden of life will flourish beyond measure.
Sometimes love comes like a gentle breeze on a soft summer’s night. Sometimes it’s a bear hug and a big sloppy kiss.
Sometimes the heart opens like the tender flutter of a butterfly’s wings. Sometimes it crashes apart in sheer wonder at the magnificence of it all.
It’s the same with change. Whether big or small, long predicted or just come upon, it always carries a taste of the unknown. It can feel like a tsunami, a whirlwind, or the fluttering ripple of that butterfly’s wings. It’s your picture after all, your change, so it’s up to you.
AS WE USHER IN this new era and level of being, as we welcome in this year to come, and as the heart of humanity opens and breathes life anew, I wish for each of you the greatest joy and unfolding happiness.
WHEREVER YOU MAY BE, whatever you may be doing, may you bring unending love to it and may you throw open the windows of your heart and, with abandon, dance the dance of life in the Garden of Love.
We are stardust.
We are golden.
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.
…..Joni Mitchell (from the song, Woodstock)
FOR SOME PEOPLE, 2012 is a year of monumental possibilities, a time when things truly change and humanity reaches for the stars of its own heart, ushering in a new way of being and a harmonious life for us all. For others, it’s a walk in the park, business as usual, the status quo. There are those who consider it all a roll of the dice no matter which way you look, and then there are the rest who aren’t really thinking of it at all.
LIKE IT SAYS in John Lennon’s amazing song, Imagine – I’m a dreamer. And I’m not the only one.
SO THIS CALL IS TO YOU – OH DREAMERS OF OUR WORLD.
CREATORS, storytellers, artists, doctors, educators, lawyers, tribal elders, one and all – whatever your role may be, this call is for you. We stand at the precipice of possibility. It’s time to tip the scales. To do so requires focus, daring, passion, and most of all, love. It requires imagining.
SO WHAT IS YOUR IMAGE of our world? What is its story? Where do you want us to be?
I CARRY WITHIN a remembering, a heart song like a beacon that won’t let go. It speaks of a time of harmony, beauty and love. A time of abundance, serenity and joy. Being a remembering, you could say that it speaks of a time past, but I know it also speaks of a time that is coming into being, here and now.
SUCH A TIME requires our active participation. To decide, once and for all, that this is the way we want it to be and in it is where we intend to live. It asks us to dive deep into the ocean of love, to shed the skins of yesterday and be born anew. It calls on us to 
script the story, frame by frame; to vividly colour it with expectation and delight, and daily sing it into being.
YES, OUR WORLD APPEARS fraught with escalating chaos and destruction. Old ways of being are crumbling and with them comes wave after wave of anxiety, doubt and fear. I know that world, I’ve walked it, and I know how devastating it can feel. How hard it can seem to step out of the mire and reclaim the power and light of who you truly are. But the truth is it is only one picture, one story.
SO DREAM THE NEW DREAM, you dreamers of our world. Hold its picture in your mind and heart. Write about it. Paint it. Make a video. Put it on YouTube. Share it with your friends. Encourage others to do the same. Listen to their picture of what it looks like and find the common ground. Celebrate your dreaming into being. Celebrate it now.
REMEMBER, whether you see yourself on a Polynesian island, midst a pine-filled forest, an amazing city, surfing a wave in Bali, a vineyard in the Mediterranean, a boat in the tropics, in the land of OZ, or where you are right now, it’s about harmony, beauty and love. And it’s about us all getting along, finally.
SO GO ON, IMAGINE – A WORLD OF PLENTY, A WORLD IN PEACE, A WORLD OF RADIANCE AND LOVE.
If this resonates with you, if it touches your heart, pass it along to as many people as you can think of. Aloha, and may we meet in the world of radiance; our version of Shangri-la.
22shangrila 