Spanning the gulf, or trying to, come what may. The spark was in me but not in him. That’s how I found out about the subjectivity of love, our being locked away in little capsules, as it were, closed off from one another, in the pain and agony, the agonizing of this distance. We shared something, yes, but it wasn’t love. Love is what you say when the gulf is widest, so wide, in fact, that you lose yourself staring out at your beloved, who is standing out there beyond the horizon, beyond any horizon, really even beyond the horizon, the terminus, of your desires. So far beyond the horizon, in fact, that the lines begin to blur between what you love and what you merely pass by and ignore, or what you are averse to, between love and its opposite. So at the height of love, or at its depth, no matter which, when you are compelled to look so far, so deep, so beyond where you are merely satisfied, reciprocity isn’t all that important, it isn’t fundamental or what bids your eyes seek on. We love despite this hopelessness embedded in our love, because of it, since love would be nothing if it is not stronger than hope, more enduring than any hope.
Love the Dust 
I love this so much, Richard: ” . . .love would be nothing if it is not stronger than hope”
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Thank you, Stacey. It is a thought we can be forced to believe, as it were. Yet it still arrives like grace.
I hope your days are shining.
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Thank you, friend!
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I love your authentic explorations and your kindness amidst energies that upon the surface appear stuck and yet which in truth are calling upon freedom. Be all that you are dear soul and thank you 🙏
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Thank you to the height. Your words to me here come to me as a gift this morning. I resonate immediately with what you say about being stuck and calling out for freedom. It is a wonder that the two can be joined, but I feel that they are.
Your own prayers are saturated with a magnificent energy. May they spread to the hearts that need them, and surprise other hearts.
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Whenever doubt enters your heart dear soul through the chattering of your mind. From this moment onwards stop in that beat, smile and gently acknowledge that they are not who you are via the “I Am not that” for you are; “I Am exponential potentiality”. In the interim period be gentle with yourself, be soul in God incarnate here to be love 🙏
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Glory to you for your gentle help. 👣
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