Gentle is the Path of LOVE...

Subtle, gentle, quiet is the way to the path of LOVE; peace of the soul, bliss of the spirit and the process of life cannot be forced...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong." ~ Leo Buscaglia

The Truth of Immortality...

I think that it is very hard for us to fully comprehend that our eternal beingness, our immortality, is not the taking of one physical form forever, but as spirit taking on infinite forms and non-forms infinitely, always in LOVE, what you are as soul is as the LOVE that is you, limitless; that is why "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" it is not; if I die before I awake, I pray the Lord my body to take, but "I pray the Lord my Soul to take".

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“For Love is Immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson

The Virus of the West...

Western civilization has spread like a mechanized zombie, vampire virus to farthest reaches and every culture of the planet, sinking its technological, industrial grade fangs into the jugular of Mother Earth, draining her dry. All in the name of LOVE, the name of God, its greatest deception, its most unholy lie; for which almost all of humanity is now warring and or dying, taking much of the life that exists in harmony with nature down with it, in its self-induced premature extinction. Life however will go on, the soul of humanity will thrive eternally and like all viruses, western civilization will disappear when the body upon which it feasts is no more and balance to the ecosystem, life's process is restored. If lucky and there are humans or any other species left to remember, the tale told round the campfire many moons from now; is that once there was a great loveless plague that infected humankind and it nearly wiped out all life as they or we knew it. 

With faith in LOVE to heal, AMEN!

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore, The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Vol 3: A Miscellany

Day of Thanks Giving...

Thankfulness, is the highest virtue of LOVE that leads to all love's other virtues; Humility, Generosity, Forgiveness, Empathy, Faith, Peace. So on this day we have named for thanks giving let us remember truly what we are celebrating; please take a moment, bow your head to your heart and from the depth of your soul and with all the LOVE your spirit can muster, give thanks for this truly miraculous experience of being alive and sharing in life's endless odyssey...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~ G.K. Chesterton

First Kiss with Infinity...

I don't think there is anyway to calculate the number of words that have been used attempting, to define what LOVE is and what LOVE does. But fewer have been used to describe what LOVE absolute feels like; imagine being connected intimately with every other spirit in all creation simultaneously and sharing freely, openly with them each of their experiences, to put it as simply as possible the feeling of LOVE absolute is like having a first kiss with Infinity in every moment of eternity...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.” ~ Hermann Hesse

Pure of Heart...

Looking out into the infinite heavens, watching the stars slowly painting trails across the black canvas of space, the soundless voice spoke again to her, "To experience the rapture of LOVE absolute one must be pure of heart, to be pure of heart one must be fulfilling their purpose in nourishing life's process."

After the briefest pause that seemed to hold eternity within it, the voice that was silent continued, "That is the only choice you have, this is freewill to be,  you are given, feed life with LOVE or consume life in fear."

She knew in that moment of truth revealed that all she had ever really desired in the deepest depth of her soul of souls was to be pure of heart.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."  ~ Honore de Balzac

LOVE Devout...

LOVE every moment, for LOVE is every moment;
LOVE beyond doubt, LOVE devout...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world." ~ John Milton

Grabbing a bowl of popcorn in one hand and a box of tissues in the other his spirit self, the true self that was not he, curled up snuggling warm on the couch, reaching for the remote control he turned on the evening news (his favorite show). Oh how he loved these humans and their wonderfully mad self-destructive antics; he chuckled to himself.

He realized he had transformed, ascended; he was now spirit lovingly observing the experience of man, rather than body fearfully participating.

Spirit is I, Soul is I, God is I, Infinity is I, LOVE is I, matter is not; he now knew...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself." ~ Bertrand Russell

Stolen Innocence...

As he grew from boy to man he was aware of a corruption overtaking his guileless spirit, he felt as if the impossible was happening, he felt as if he were losing LOVE and he knew finding it again was the only way his stolen innocence would be recovered.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,
But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,
Because when you love you never know what you love,
Or why you love, or what love is.

Loving is eternal innocence,
And the only innocence is not thinking.”
~ Alberto Caeiro


Foolish Ego Must Die...

How stubbornly arrogant his ego to foolishly believe that it's shadow, like a black hole devouring stars, could consume the light of LOVE that is infinite immortal Soul; just the thought made his spirit smile more widely than he could ever remember and he knew in that moment his ego-self must die if ever he were to find endless happiness and be truly eternally free...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love." ~ Simon Cowell

LOVE; God's Will...

LOVE is the will of God, the will of Infinity to be, to experience not just conceptualize abstractly creation; we are, all life is the indomitable will that is LOVE, to experience being...
just LOVE...

Kip Baldwin
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“Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.” ~ Albert Einstein

Sailing Free...

Infinite are the faces of beauty to gaze upon anew
Infinite are the lips of tenderness to lay first kiss
Infinite are the seas of LOVE sailing free again to be...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.”
Maya Angelou

The arrogant, ignorant being experiences LOVE as fear, their ego leading them to falsely believe LOVE can be lost, while the humble, wise being meekly inherits all the happiness and peace LOVE is, knowing that LOVE is neither lost or found only infinitely shared... better to be the wise, humble peasant meekly inheriting the shared creation that is LOVE, than the vain, foolish king hoarding all the nothingness that is fear; in the still, silence of his meditation the young monk remembered...
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Of LOVE and Time...

When we move from fear to LOVE our happy, joyful times will seem to last forever and our misery will seem as fleeting as the last grain of sand through the hour glass, the opposite of how it is now in fear, where the pain and suffering seems never to end; our hourglass filled long with sorrow and regret, in LOVE soon empty...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Any time not spent on love is wasted.” ~ Torquato Tasso

Falling in LOVE with Himself...

He had struggled for what seemed like eons to overcome the deep self loathing he felt, he wanted to LOVE himself, but how could he when he saw the contempt with which he and his fellow man treated the precious, precious gift of life, but then he felt a presence urging him to look right before him that the answer to how to LOVE himself was there all along; LOVE is all, the presence reminded him. So if he truly loved LOVE, he must LOVE himself for LOVE is he as well.

With that new remembering he exploded across Infinity his LOVE connecting with all other LOVE and for the first time he could recall in this troubled illusion, he could feel his spirit and soul were in harmony and peace, he had at last found the vibration of LOVE in this experience and now that he could truly LOVE himself, he could truly LOVE all...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Something inside you emerges….an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

Letting Go of His Expectation...

He knew if he did not this moment move from having the expectation of LOVE into the experience of LOVE, he would most surely die of anticipation. And he was from a certain perspective of death correct, as he could not truly have the absolute experience of LOVE yearned for, until the he having the expectation of experience ceased to be...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39)” ~ Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra

A Master of LOVE...

The beggar reached out and grabbed the hand of the boy lost in despair and said to him, "For a penny I will give you the secret to being a master of LOVE". The boy smiled kindly, kneeling down, handing the poor man a penny. "Now share with me the secret of being a master of LOVE, for my LOVE left me for another and perhaps if I am master of LOVE, her LOVE I can win back", he said with slight, but unintended sarcasm.

The beggar touched the boy's arm with his dirty weathered fingers, looking deeply into the eyes of his soul and spoke these words, "A true master of LOVE, loves until there is no more master, only LOVE". The boy smiled, looking up into the clear blue sky, his eye squinting in the sun, the boy felt the truth in the beggars words and when he looked back down the beggar was gone, only the penny he had given remained, lying on the ground where the beggar once sat. 

The boy laughed from depth of his spirit, for a master had come to him in the form of a beggar to heal his heart and to share the truth of the LOVE, he and his LOVE had shared. He closed his eyes and wished with all his being for his LOVE, all LOVE.

And with that wish, the boy too was gone...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is." ~ Gary Zukav

LOVE Erupting...

He could feel the very fabric of this illusion trembling, LOVE was building below the surface of the facade terror, like an infinite magma chamber just beneath the earth's crust ready to explode man's existing paradigms of fear...
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“There is no illusion greater than fear.” ~ Lao Tzu

Real Empathy...

Compassion and empathy that is felt only in times of crisis and or catastrophe, (usually, but not always in the case of the human species self manifested and inflicted) is not really compassion and empathy, but survival instinct activated from a place of fear for ourselves, not actual caring and concern for others; real compassion and empathy is felt in each and every moment of being, without thinking, for that is the instinct of LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” ~ Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe


LOVE is I...

It was not yet dawn, as the young man went about the morning chores of caring for his beloved horses, the fog fresh from the ocean cooling him, as he went about his labors, suddenly a light bulb exploded across his mind like a super nova from the farthest reaches of space. He had had it all backwards; it was not he that is LOVE, it was LOVE that is he, it was not he that is God, it was God that is he.

God had created perfect flaw so that she may experience the feeling of being in LOVE, we are, all creation is God's perfect imperfection; he laid down in the corral and stared out at the moon and the stars that were now giving way morning sun, resurrecting the day, for now his mind had wandered Infinity long enough, knowing he had an eternity of nows to wander in.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The Answer to Why...

He thought; all his life it seemed that he and the rest the human species have looked out to the infinite unknown and ask, "why am I?" Thinking the infinite would answer them back in some way they could comprehend, with only the wise realizing the answer lies not out there, somewhere, some when, but within in each of us everywhere, always.

Look within yourself; he continued to ponder.

The answer was there within him; find the frequency, the vibration of LOVE within each illusion and there you will find the answer you seek, always the same, but ever changing; just be what LOVE needs you to be and you will be happy, we will be happy...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Eternal is LOVE...

As the world came to end, they feared not for this life they would soon be departing, in fact it was with joy together they faced their imminent unavoidable demise, for they knew beyond all doubt, their LOVE would live eternally on...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“A glorious death would be in my
final breath to take before I die, to hear
one final time on my belovèd's mouth
the sound of her eternal sigh.” ~ Roman Payne

The Finctionality of LOVE...

To separate the mechanical, functional, aspect of the illusion of being from the spiritual makes as much sense as separating the spiritual from the mechanical; for even the greatest painting takes both the inspiration and vision of the artist, as well as the brush and paint, laid layer upon layer with meticulous loving care for the masterpiece to be given life. It is no different than the meticulous loving care that has gone into the imagining of the God consciousness that brought life to all creation in Infinity, allowing a you and me to imagine to be; thus to think anything can exist in an illusion that does adhere to its laws and rules, is a deficit in understanding and logic that maybe fatal to the being in that illusion; LOVE rules, but each illusion has its own rules of LOVE... LOVE IS BIGGER THAN YOU OR ANY BEING EVER CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE!

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life."
~ Deepak Chopra

Of LOVE and Despair...

She cries silently inside so that no one can see, a veneer of courage masking an impenetrable sorrow.

She had to be the unfaltering beacon of hope, of faith, of LOVE. Some probably think her mad, others have remembered, broken the spell cast by fear that keeps so many enthralled, ensnared, enslaved, thou they are as seemingly powerless as she, to effect real change upon the almost insurmountable challenges humanity has placed ignorantly before themselves.

But her vast melancholy was born not so much for she and her fellow man who so eagerly and with great gusto, choose to greet their certain, imminent demise. No the tears that were drowning her heart are shed for her beloved planet and all life upon it they were making extinct or maiming severely.

The innocence was dead, assassinated and that was more than all LOVE in her spirit could keep from her being overwhelmed by the unyielding despair; a feeling of blue so dark... it was almost black.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.” ~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

LOVE's Cup...

LOVE's cup is eternally overflowing, there to nourish all and yet from it still, too few are drinking.
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Where is your water? Know your garden.” ~ Hopi teaching

LOVE's Vibration...

Deeper than ever before he laid in the still, silence of his meditation, where the remembering comes piece by piece. Then from the silence came the familiar wordless, soundless voice; all infinite creation is LOVE vibrating at different frequencies, to change the experience of any part of creation simply change the frequency of LOVE's vibration and tune into something new, but know that every illusion in creation has a unique frequency that must be maintained for that illusion to be. Because if some part of that illusion is not in tune or in harmony with the frequency of that illusion the experience will not be one of joy, bliss, peace and unity, but instead one of suffering, pain, discord and isolation. 

The voice went on; this is true of universal cosmic illusions, planetary nature illusions and even the illusions of one on one personal relationships. The question then any being must ask itself is not whether it is in LOVE or not, as that is a given absolute. But whether they are in tune, in harmony or not?

Further the voice said; think about it, everything in this illusion you choose and are now experiencing runs on vibrations; your car needs to be in tune all parts running at the right vibration, in harmony with one another in order to operate properly, your radio needs to be tuned to the correct frequency to hear the station you want to listen to and heaven forbid the songs you are listening to are out of tune.

Then just as it had come the voice of the silence was silent again.

And with those words echoing silently through his consciousness he remembered another piece to the truth of his being; there was no he, only the illusion, the experience of he, for he like all else is a vibration of LOVE making up all Infinity's creation.

Now he need only remind himself to stay in tune, in harmony, remembering all is LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” ~ Nikola Tesla

“Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.” ~ Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it." ~ Abraham Hicks

Choir of Forever...

He thought, as he gazed out from dawn to dusk, sun beaming through the forever blue sky melting into the eternal black of endless space, freckled with the night's stars; that the experience of becoming aware of one's true infinite being plays out as cycles of forgetting and then remembering how to feel and allow others feel LOVE; to gain the perspective of Infinity is to feel how the stars dance and sing in the waltz eternity and the choir of forever...
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Game of Fools...

To imagine living, being without LOVE, is to transform life into an absurd game, that is impossible to win, played only by fools; this is the absurd game, no one is winning and we are being the fools...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?" ~ Frederick Carl Frieseke 


“Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.” ~ Rumi

Maing War Rather Than LOVE?

As he lay in orgasmic bliss, entwined with his beloved, lost in the ecstasy of the moment, he pondered; how depraved and broken the spirit must be that would choose to make war rather than LOVE...
just LOVE...

Kip Baldwin
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“They're in love. Fuck the war.” ~ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow