Oshalla (her ancient tribe’s word for LOVE) the young fair Indian princess, lapped like a thirsty lynx water from the crystal spring her long red black hair wetted as she drank. After she finished swallowing all she needed of the spring’s life giving elixir, she sat back looking at her beautiful reflection flicker and wave, in time with the sunlight dappled and rippling surface of the serene little pool and as she gave thanks for the abundance of the moment, a sacred thought came to her, “Water is to the mortal body, as LOVE is to the immortal soul”.

Dig just beneath the surface of your imagined fears and you will find the truth that LOVE is the only inspiration to live, to be…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

With each passing moment, as the LOVE that is his immortal spirit replaced the fear that had become his mortal human body; being human, he wondered, what does that mean if humans have lost their humanity, the connection to the soul of their collective as a species, philanthropy?

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

Fear traps us into living only with visions of our regrets of yesterdays that are no more and of our wants for tomorrows that will never be; whilst LOVE allows us to see and experience eternal perfection in every infinite now…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Forever is composed of nows.” ~ Emily Dickinson

LOVE is not one thing, but is all things; this is what the spirit and the soul knows that in body the mind forgets…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

LOVE passes no judgement and asks no retribution, offering instead only understanding and forgiveness, giving space for reunification and healing…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.” ~ Alfred Tennyson

If one doesn’t with soul level instinctual intention, determine what in each experience they are meant to be in LOVE in service to life, then in fear will they be drug through that experience of life in what will seem like an endless series of meaningless doings, believing, but not knowing, attempting vainly control, never allowing surrender to acceptance…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If given the choice between an eternal, permanent death or an experience of life devoid, absent of LOVE, he would choose immediately to rush eagerly to the highest cliff and leap joyfully into the embrace of his forever demise.” he thought, as he sat trembling in his bed soaked with sweat and tears having just awoke from the worst of all bad dreams, the most horrific of nightmares; that of a creation where LOVE did exist, only an infinite shadow of endless loneliness, where the only voice echoing in the timeless space less void was his own. Then he thought, trembling and weeping on, is what reality would be like if ego reigned supreme.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” ~ Hermann Hesse