He wondered from the brink of despondence. “Why the Star People had given him that glimpse into how the experience of LOVE and life could be?” He had thought at first, it was so that he could share this beautiful truth with his fellow human beings, but so consumed are they by the narcissistic insanity of their addictions to consumption and convenience that the only voices they heard were their own; he felt tired, alone, defeated.

But then again came the voices of the dwellers of the Great Star Nation, “Young man…” they began “Do you not feel that the glimpse we have shown you, that you have shared, has not touched and opened the heart of at least one of your tribe, we call Blind Ego Spirits?” The young man answered, “Yes, I believe that I have touched and opened the heart of least one of my tribe?” Came the star people’s reply, “Then you have accomplished a great feat, for you caused the first domino to fall and though it may be beyond your ability in body to perceive, the other dominoes are are falling as well.” With that they were gone and just as he had all those years before, he woke with a start upon returning from the Dreamtime, as if falling back into the realm of matter.

And though he was sad his family in the stars had left him once more, their words had given him comfort, he could now be happy for he had not failed (as he had believed) to bring enlightenment to the his tribe of human. Their words made him aware also, that he had been being just as selfish and ego driven as rest of the men of the west, for he had not been satisfied to touch just one soul, open just one heart, he had been wanting to collect them all, which made him unable to see the Great Spirit’s wisdom, “To touch one soul, one heart was to touch them all.”

Touch one soul, open one heart, even if it be only one’s own, that is all the experience of LOVE; asks we do.

just LOVE…
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“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.” ~ Ramana Maharshi

just LOVE…
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“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” ~ Walt Whitman

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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ~ Anne Frank

“There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.” ~ Helen Keller

memory returning of what it means to make LOVE; seeing, needing our lover’s soul, not just their body —

if being for you now is complex and confusing then you do not yet understand, for when LOVE is understood how to be is simple and clear —

end the battle within and the warring without will cease; it is you manifesting the quandary that creates the quagmire —

understand?

just LOVE…
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

it is without answer, but it’s answer is absolute —

and as all these words attempt in futility, to describe Infinity, so too they in futility attempt to describe LOVE —

and you may friends are so much less than you have doubted, yet so much greater than you are capable of imagining —

thrive now, live, LOVE life my brothers, sisters of all shapes and kinds and those who choose to be undefined, you are the infinite experience on the endless odyssey…

just LOVE…
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“We are Not Our thought , return to being in You and enjoy the Love that shared by the God(infinity).” ~ Sushil Singh

“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. But most of all, there is very nearly nothing in the dark; except for little bits here and there, often associated with the light, this infinite receptacle is empty.

This picture is strangely frightening. It should be familiar. It is our universe.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are, as sand, as dust, or less than dust, in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Nothing! We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s Pensées and read, ‘I am the great silent spaces between worlds.’

[From an undated, handwritten piece of text from the early 1950s which Sagan wrote when he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago]” ~ Carl Sagan