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SUMMARY:peace\, love\, happiness & understanding  11/5/26
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nTHE OPEN ROAD \npeace\, love\, happiness & understanding \n  \nNovember 5\, 2026 \n  \nSending Out Love Vibes \n  \nSending out Love Vibes (positive Love Vibes) \nto all the creatures of the universe \n  \n—Larry Yes\, from the song “Love Vibes” \n* \n  \nWith our love\, we could save the world… \n  \n—George Harrison\, from the song “Within You Without You” \n* \n  \nLove’s in need of love today \nDon’t delay \nSend yours in right away \n  \n—Stevie Wonder \n* \n  \nChildren of the future age\, \nReading this indignant page\, \nKnow that in a former time\, \nLove\, sweet Love\, was thought a crime. \n  \n—William Blake \n* \n  \nLove is the greatest force in the universe.  \n  \n—Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. \n* \n  \nWho loves not\, knows not God; for God is Love. \n  \n1 John\, 8:4 \n* \n  \n20 \nIn all people I see myself\, none more and not one a barley-corn less… \n  \n48 \n…whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud… \nIn the faces of men and women I see God\, and in my own face in the glass \n  \n—Walt Whitman\, from “Song of Myself” \n* \n  \nwake up\, heart! \n  \nwake up\, heart! \nwake up and love everyone and every thing \nlove the unlovable \nthe unhappy old men who start the wars \nthe geniuses who collapse the economy \nthe heads of the big corporations who ruin the earth \nthey need love\, too \nwhy else would they do stuff like that? \nwe all want to love and be loved \nwe all need to love and be loved \nlove everything that moves \nand everything that won’t budge \nlove the person who is reading or listening to this poem \nyou might start with the easy ones \npassing dogs \nlaughing children \nfluffy white clouds \nall the spring flowers shouting “love me!” \npractice on the easy ones \nuntil you get so good at it that you accidentally love the weird and scary homeless people\, the criminals\, the people whose views differ from yours—before you have time to think about it \nheart\, you were born for love \nmr. brain sometimes tells you not to \n“don’t love that one\,” he says\, “that one doesn’t deserve it” \n“don’t be a fool” \nforgive mr. brain \nhe can’t help it \nhe’s always making distinctions between this and that \nhe needs a hug \nyou know better \nyou know that the thing to do is just to love \nto wake up and love without limit \n  \n—from The Nonstop Love-In by Johnny Stallings \n* \n  \nIn his poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge was imitating an archaic style of ballad. An old guy grabs a young man on his way to a wedding\, sits him down and tells him his story: \n  \nIt is an ancient Mariner\, \nAnd he stoppeth one of three. \n‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye\, \nNow wherefore stopp’st thou me?…. \n  \nHe holds him with his glittering eye— \nThe Wedding-Guest stood still\, \nAnd listens like a three years’ child: \nThe Mariner hath his will. \n  \nThe Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: \nHe cannot choose but hear; \nAnd thus spake on that ancient man\, \nThe bright-eyed Mariner… \n  \nThe ancient mariner tells the wedding guest how his ship was surrounded by ice\, and how by following an albatross they were able to get into the open sea… \n  \nAnd a good south wind sprung up behind; \nThe Albatross did follow\, \nAnd every day\, for food or play\, \nCame to the mariner’s hollo!… \n  \nUnfortunately…. \n  \n‘God save thee\, ancient Mariner! \nFrom the fiends\, that plague thee thus!— \nWhy look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow \nI shot the ALBATROSS… \n  \nAfter he kills the innocent bird of good omen\, the ship is cursed and become becalmed. \n  \nWater\, water everywhere \nAnd all the boards did shrink. \nWater\, water everywhere \nNor any drop to drink… \n  \nThe sailors hang the dead bird around his neck. All 200 of his shipmates are slowly starving to death. Then\, suddenly they all drop down. At this point the wedding guest gets scared. Don’t worry\, the Mariner says to reassure him: \n  \n“This body dropt not down.” \n  \nSo\, that’s a relief. He’s not a damned soul\, back from Hell. On the ship it’s still a terrible Hell realm with all those corpses. When he looks over the side of the boat all he sees is “a thousand slimy things.” He tries to pray. He can’t. But he keeps looking over the side of the boat. And as he looks\, something happens: \n  \nWithin the shadow of the ship \nI watched the water-snakes—their rich attire: \nBlue\, glossy green and velvet black\, \nThey coiled and swam; and every track \nWas a flash of golden fire. \n  \nO happy living things! no tongue \nTheir beauty might declare: \nA spring of love gushed from my heart\, \nAnd I blessed them unaware: \nSure my kind saint took pity on me\, \nAnd I blessed them unaware. \n  \nThe self-same moment I could pray; \nAnd from my neck so free \nThe Albatross fell off\, and sank \nLike lead into the sea… \n  \nWith the help of a troop of blessed spirits\, the ship sails back to his own country. A hermit shrives him\, but from time to time he has to tell his tale to someone. The last thing he says to the Wedding Guest is: \n  \nFarewell\, farewell! but this I tell \nTo thee\, thou Wedding-Guest! \nHe prayeth well who loveth well \nBoth man and bird and beast. \n  \nHe prayeth best\, who loveth best \nAll things\, both great and small; \nFor the dear God Who loveth us\, \nHe made and loveth all. \n  \n—Samuel Taylor Coleridge\, from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” \n* \n  \nReading recommendations… \n  \n…the whole poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” \n…two novels by Niall Williams: This Is Happiness and Time of the Child \n* \n  \n20 \nLove with all your heart—and be happy. This world is then a jewel. It is Paradise. Everything is here for your delight. Love all that is good and enjoy what you love. Love is our nature. When we love everyone and are loved by everyone we are happy. \n  \n67  \nHow could I desire to be other than what I am? I am infinitely prone to love and am infinitely lovely. What could be more glorious? O unspeakable Joy! What more could I wish for? \n  \n71 \nIt is impossible not to love someone who loves you. Love is so amiable that it is irresistible. There is no defense against that arrow\, nor any safeguard from that charm. What life would you lead? By what would you be guided? We must have something to live for. What would you choose? Why not live in blessedness? Why not live in love? You must live for something. What more glorious than infinite love? Where there is infinite love there is infinite treasure. Choose the friendliest paths that lead to love and joy. By love alone is life enjoyed\, by love alone delighted in. Love is the essence of life. It is our true nature. \n  \n73 \nOur nature requires that we love everyone and be grateful for all the gifts we have been given. Everyone is naturally amiable\, and so all need to love and be loved and to take delight in it. This is our desire and our birthright. Our nature urges us to love. For without loving we are desolate and by loving we are filled with joy. By loving we expand and enlarge ourselves\, and the more we love the more glorious we become. \n  \n80 \nWe are born for love—to love each other as naturally as the sun shines. \n  \n87 \nAs the sun warms us and quickens us with life\, may boundless love for everyone enlighten us\, cause us to see the greatness of our nature\, give us the joy of Paradise\, comfort and enflame us. Let us look so deeply into the world\, into ourselves and into each other that we feel the oneness of everyone and everything. Let us shine like the sun and allow Love to make its home in our hearts—joyfully enjoying all the gifts we have been given. \n  \n88 \nWe are beguiled by what we see with our eyes. May we cherish the invisible gifts of understanding and of love. May our love shine brighter than the sun. \n  \n90 \nWe must let our goodness shine by loving everyone. Where suffering is greatest\, love is most needed. Let us make this world a paradise by caring for each other. \n  \n91 \nLet our love be as strong as death\, and so deep that no waters may be able to drown it. O let it be ever endless and invincible! Let the length and breadth and height of our love for each other be without limit. Let undrainable fountains and immeasurable abysses be hidden in it. Let it be more vehement than flame\, more abundant than the sea. The sun has shone from the beginning of the world to this very day; shall our love be intermittent? Let our love be a perpetual fire on the altar of our hearts. \n  \n—versions of some of Thomas Traherne’s meditations by Johnny Stallings \n* \n  \nA human being is part of the whole called by us “universe\,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself\, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. \n  \nThis delusion is a kind of prison for us\, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. \n  \nOur task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. \n  \n—Albert Einstein \n* \n  \n13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels\, but have not love\, I am become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy\, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge\, and though I have all faith\, so that I could remove mountains\, but have not love\, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor\, and though I give my body to be burned\, but have not love\, it profits me nothing. \n4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself\, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely\, does not seek its own\, is not provoked\, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity\, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things\, believes all things\, hopes all things\, endures all things. \n8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies\, they will fail; whether there are tongues\, they will cease; whether there is knowledge\, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come\, then that which is in part will be done away. \n11 When I was a child\, I spoke as a child\, I understood as a child\, I thought as a child; but when I became a man\, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass\, darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part\, but then shall I know even as also I am known. \n13 And now abide faith\, hope\, love\, these three; but the greatest of these is love. \n  \n1 Corinthians: 13 \n* \n  \nMy bounty is as boundless as the sea\, \nMy love as deep; the more I give to thee\, \nThe more I have\, for both are infinite. \n  \n—Juliet\, from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet\, Act 2\, Scene 2 \n* \n  \nLet me not to the marriage of true minds \nAdmit impediments; love is not love \nWhich alters when it alteration finds\, \nOr bends with the remover to remove. \nO no\, it is an ever-fixèd mark \nThat looks on tempests and is never shaken; \nIt is the star to every wand’ring bark \nWhose worth’s unknown\, although his height be taken. \nLove’s not time’s fool\, though rosy lips and cheeks \nWithin his bending sickle’s compass come. \nLove alters not with his brief hours and weeks\, \nBut bears it out even to the edge of doom: \nIf this be error and upon me proved\, \nI never writ\, nor no man ever loved. \n  \n—William Shakespeare\, Sonnet 116 \n* \n  \n…Love\, first learnèd in a lady’s eyes\, \nLives not alone immurèd in the brain\, \nBut with the motion of all elements \nCourses as swift as thought in every power\, \nAnd gives to every power a double power\, \nAbove their functions and their offices. \nIt adds a precious seeing to the eye. \nA lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. \nA lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound\, \nWhen the suspicious head of theft is stopped. \nLove’s feeling is more soft and sensible \nThan are the tender horns of cockled snails. \nLove’s tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste. \nFor valor\, is not love a Hercules\, \nStill climbing trees in the Hesperides? \nSubtle as Sphinx\, as sweet and musical \nAs bright Apollo’s lute strung with his hair. \nAnd when love speaks\, the voice of all the gods \nMake heaven drowsy with the harmony. \nNever durst poet touch a pen to write \nUntil his ink were tempered with love’s sighs. \nO\, then his lines would ravish savage ears \nAnd plant in tyrants mild humility. \nFrom women’s eyes this doctrine I derive. \nThey sparkle still the right Promethean fire. \nThey are the books\, the arts\, the academes \nThat show\, contain\, and nourish all the world. \nElse none at all in ought proves excellent. \nThen fools you were these women to forswear\, \nOr\, keeping what is sworn\, you will prove fools. \nFor wisdom’s sake\, a word that all men love\, \nOr for love’s sake\, a word that loves all men\, \nOr for men’s sake\, the authors of these women\, \nOr women’s sake\, by whom we men are men\, \nLet us once lose our oaths to find ourselves\, \nOr else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths. \nIt is religion to be thus forsworn\, \nFor charity itself fulfills the law\, \nAnd who can sever love from charity? \n  \n—Berowne\, from Shakespeare’s Love’s Labors Lost\, Act 4\, Scene 3 \n* \n  \nMay all beings be happy. \nMay we live in peace and love. \n 
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