Let the thorns that prick painfully your fragile flesh as you climb your infinite path, the eternal stalk, be but reminders that with every tiny stab of tender skin, you grow ever closer to LOVE’s blossom.
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~ Anais Nin
Because all is one in LOVE and Infinity, the pleasure one brings the other, one brings oneself, so too the pain; the masochist is the sadist and the sadist is the masochist.
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.” ~ Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
The hunter could hear the sorrowful screaming from miles away, he followed the mournful wailing to its source and there he found the body of dead falcon mother laying on the ground at the base of a very tall jagged rock face. What had led to her death he was not sure and in the moment it did not matter for the source of grief stricken cries was from the falcon’s nest perched far above; two baby falcons screeching in vain for their mother’s return. He knew instinctually – though terrified of heights – that if did not climb the wall and rescue the newly hatched eyass they would surely perish. So he laid down his rifle and began to climb and climb, overcoming his mortal fear, hands torn and bloodied from the jagged stones, until he reached the nest and the baby birds. He wrapped them gently in his worn flannel shirt which he fashioned into a nap sack and he began his arduous descent down the cliff he smiled soul wide and thought to himself, “This is what LOVE is; the sacred responsibility life has to nurture and help all other life thrive.” and with this divine experience and that blessed thought, he knew he had just become a much wiser man. He walked from the cliff babies nestled safely in his arms, his rifle left lying on the ground.
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
LOVE is erupting like a long dormant spiritual volcano and it can’t be stopped; it is changing the face of everything and now nothing will ever again be the same; returned from illusion to truth, the LOVE revolution has begun; all existing paradigms are shifting or being rendered irrelevant, to new collective consciousness that is emerging.
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
~ Buckminster Fuller
The tree of LOVE bears the fruits of forgiveness, compassion and empathy.
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.” ~ Thomas Merton
When the LOVE you are matters more to you than the matter you are not, you will have awoken, remembered, transformed.
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.” ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
To experience to its fullest infinite extent all that LOVE is, we must relinquish our illusions of control; for LOVE is both the ocean and the tide and we are but the tiniest of boats floating without sail, rudder or course; our fate predetermined by it, not us.
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn’t even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.” ~ Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Higher, ever higher I am drifting
into the dark of endless night, framed by the flickering flame of eternal holy light
Destination unknown my soul taken flight
On angel wings of LOVE the spirit flutters and soars
as with myself the butterfly and eagle, I am no longer at war
Looking down from far above, my cherished body and Earth below
Into the soothing comfort of God’s embrace, I surrender, I let go, I flow
My flesh now dissipating into blessed sacred mist
The call to true home, I must heed, all reason gone to resist
Now only in abstract dream I experience all my infinite selves
As gone is all ego, the illusion of the tortured shell
Returned to Infinity, the divine absolute oneness, where again forever I dwell
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for others.
But where there is selfishness it mars joy. One selfish soul will destroy the sweetness of life in any home. It is like an ugly bush in the midst of a garden of flowers. It was selfishness that destroyed the first home and blighted all the loveliness of Paradise; and it has been blighting lovely things in earth’s home ever since. We need to guard against this spirit.” ~ James Russell Miller
LOVE is the key that unlocks the doors of perception and manifestation that sets free our eternal soul from the delusions of forgetting Infinity that we choose to experience.
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” ~ William Blake
It is not I that is LOVE, it is LOVE that is I…
just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” ~ Jean Anouilh
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