<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Beatitude</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love everything</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the sky and sea, trees and rivers,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> mountains and abysses.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love animals, and not just because you are one.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your parents and your children,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> even if you have none.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your spouse or partner,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> no matter what either word means to you.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love until you create a cavern in your loving,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> until it seethes like a volcano.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love everytime.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your enemies.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the enemies of your enemies.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love those whose very idea of love is hate.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the liars and the fakes.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the tattletales and the hypercrits, the hucksters and the traitors.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the thieves because everyone has thought</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> of stealing something at least once.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the rich who live only to empty</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> your purse or wallet.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the poverty of your empty coin purse or wallet.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your piss and sweat and shit.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your and others’ chatter and its proof of the expansiveness</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> of nothingness.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your shadows and their silent censure.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your fears, yesterday’s and tomorrow’s.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your yesterdays and tomorrows.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love your beginning and your end.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the fact that your end is another beginning,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> or could be, for someone else.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love yourself, but not too much</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> that you cannot love everything and everyone else.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love everywhere.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love in the absence of love.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the monsters breeding</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> in every corner of the city and suburb,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> all throughout the soil of the countryside.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the monster breeding inside you and slaughter him</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> with love.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love the shipwreck of your body, your mind’s</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> salted garden.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love love.</span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>- John Keene</div></div></body></html>