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SIMPLY LOVE

Love is simply
something more
than agendas
or judgments;
something more
than control
or appearances;
more than intrusion
into our inner soul.
Love is simply being;
it is holding.
Love is
united fulfillment;
it is security,
not control.
Love is
unconditional
acceptance;
and

LOVE SIMPLY IS.

(c) barbara kausteklis 5-24-11

Thanks to Peter Russell for his poetry
and to Angel Love for sharing it with us
and for being our Guest for our first
Pick-Apart Poetry Event on Friendburst.

And I’m co-hosting there with Sharonlee.
An honor and a lot of fun . . . . every third Wednesday
(posting on the third Tuesday evening
and running through Wednesday.)

http://www.friendburst.com/blog/38473/pick-apart-poetry-babara-k-sharonlee-poem-featured-angel-love/

The idea of Pick-Apart Poetry
is to select 25 words from featured
poetry selection and using only those
25 words (can be used more than once each
and “rules” are detailed at the above link),
create a new piece of your own.

Tonight’s featured piece from which
I selected the 25 words that I used in my own:

Love – The Gift of Peace
by Peter Russell

Love is not something you do,
Love is a way of being.
And more than that.
It is simply being,
Being with another person,
however they may be.
Holding no judgments,
having no agendas,
No desire to control,
No need to prove your love,
No intrusion upon their soul.
Nothing but a total acceptance of their being,
Born of your acceptance of yours.
Unconditional love is not unconditional approval
of another’s actions, irrespective of their effects
upon others. It is unconditional love of the being
behind the action. It does not depend upon how
a person thinks, feels, or behaves. It does not
pause to assess whether or not another is worthy
of affection. It recognizes that beneath all our
various appearances and activities we all want to
feel loved. In this we are all united.
Unconditional love recognizes that we are all to some
extent, caught in the belief that our inner satisfaction
is determined by what goes on around us. We all feel the
need for security, control, recognition, approval, and
stimulus to varying degrees, we all feel threatened from
time to time by things that seem to stand in the way of
our fulfillment; and we can all make mistakes.

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This is always such a fun challenge
(and looks as though it should be easier than it is)
and I don’t think I’ve missed even one of them
since I began trying them several years ago.

Thanks always for your visits and comments.

~barb~