<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am a bit tardy myself in responding to your post but I deeply absorbed your ‘Subject of Love’ as I travelled barefoot through your it. . .<div class="">and a poem is forming in response.</div><div class="">Love and only love</div><div class="">Riantee <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 8, 2022, at 07:08, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello friends! <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm a bit tardy posting this from last Tuesday's Mastery class, but here's the poem I read. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peace, love and harmony...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size:18pt" class="">On the Subject of Love…</span></u></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Somewhere in waking space
– </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Somewhere between Blue
Tara and Green Hercules – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Grace drips over soul-longing
edges – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> those soft and gentle shoulders</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> stronger than any god; </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">that swirl in a circle’s
eye – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">that beam of essential
radiance, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">that love ray on target among
all targets; </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">that surge of energy in love’s
formlessness, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">that source of urgency
focused on oneness. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Where has forgiveness
gone? </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Do you think it is waiting
to come back </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">to open arms full of love
and acceptance? </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">How have <i class="">these</i> arms
become so numb? </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">If this is a road that
calls us to travel, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">will each step be as
stable as the last? </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">When will love’s open toe
resist the sandal? </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">It won’t, for it remains
ever open.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">There is no sandal, save
the sole of the foot. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">If this is love’s subject,
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">It rejects no part of the
story. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">It respects every scratch
on every surface, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> every part of the whole; </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">it reflects source on
every shore; </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">it lives without regret. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Somewhere on a terrace – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Somewhere, between a holy
stone and a run-down ritual – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">awareness resumes its own
worship of everything – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">the divine within, the
divine without; </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">the
subject of love is absorbed. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a name="_Hlk37055206" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class="">Edgar Z. Balldinger </span></a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class="">
March 22, 2022</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class=""> © Nublin’s Pub, 202</span></i><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class="">2</span></i></div></div></div>
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