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Heaven in Hell’s Despair

Posted on August 10, 2018August 9, 2018 by Michael Rose

“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”

-William Blake, from The Clod and the Pebble

Love is the primary element in the alchemy of the Beautiful Way. It is the creative, restorative force that enlivens and sustains all things. It makes all things beautiful.

We are invited to co-create the Beautiful Way with our choice to ‘live loved’, connected to the source of love itself, and in turn ‘live love’, as a conduit, a temporal manifestation of that love everywhere we go – Building “Heaven in Hell’s despair.”

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