The cause fear… the effects doubt, hate, greed, shortage, competition, war.

The cause LOVE.. the effects faith, empathy, generosity, abundance, collaboration, peace.

How one chooses to BE, their cause, effects how they experience the illusions of what is.

How we are choosing to BE, is clear from how we are experiencing what IS.

If we want a different effect and different perception of the experience of what IS, all we must do is change our cause from fear to LOVE.

It is in fact of science and truth of spirit, just that easy, just that simple… just a matter of cause and effect.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” ~ Herman Melville

“Situations seem to happen to people, but in reality, they unfold from deeper karmic causes. The universe unfolds to itself, bringing to bear any cause that needs to be included. Don’t take this process personally. The working out of cause and effect is eternal. You are part of this rising and falling that never ends, and only by riding the wave can you ensure that the waves don’t drown you. The ego takes everything personally, leaving no room for higher guidance or purpose. If you can, realize that a cosmic plan is unfolding and appreciate the incredibly woven tapestry for what it is, a design of unparalleled marvel.” ~ Deepak Chopra

In fear blinded, by blind rage for eons they have wounded, wounding all, wounding self most; in LOVE awakened, with kind calmness for eternity they shall be healed, healing all, healing self first…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi

LOVE is the spark of life, that begins all hearts to beat…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“One love, one heart, one destiny.” ~ Bob Marley

Ultimately and without option LOVE is not a choice to be; for LOVE, God, Infinity, the incomprehensible three that are one, is absolutely, innately what we are. But blinded by the glistening fool’s golds of the endless illusions we know as creation, our countless incarnations of mortal lives we refuse to see the truth of what IS; what IS was, what IS now, what IS eternally to BE… the treasure we seek, the soul, our true self, buried beneath the disguises of matter we don.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.” ~ D.H. Lawrence

Roses in eternal bloom
Watered by LOVE’s gentle rain
Season by season
Moment by moment
Experience by experience
Shedding thorns of pain
Rose petal becoming lotus blossom
In creation’s infinite pond float
Life ever anew revealed
Soul’s reflections shimmer
Drowning to soar
Living to die
The curtain rises and falls
Garden womb stage
Stars twinkling spotlights
A play unending…

Give thanks for the gift of being!

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“…the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.” ~ Walt Whitman, “O Me! O Life!”, Leaves of Grass

Fear is the force that drives the battle of ego

LOVE is the force that ends the war with soul

As you awaken to the truth that never was there a war to be battled at all…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” ~ Jean Anouilh

For LOVE to be all that LOVE is, one must only feel it, share it, be it; freely, regardless… for LOVE transcends all space and time, the illusions that take shape, as one’s imagined experiences of matter; one must only, because LOVE is only; one is only LOVE…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” ~ Khalil Gibran

Restless, tortured wanderer, I mourn not this day of your passing, in truth I envy that you are free; freed to LOVE. I celebrate this anniversary of your departing, knowing in my soul that you are happy now, bound no longer by illusions of flesh and societal constraints that were an ever tightening noose around your beautiful throat. You are where one day I pray and strive each moment to reach, to be, at peace; tears of joy, not grief I weep for you my dearest friend, gone on to the heaven’s bliss before me…

For Sarah, known to this world formerly as Soudabeh, May 9th, 2002

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

No yesterday
No tomorrow
No lies
No regrets
No sorrow
No doubt

Only now
Only LOVE
Only truth
Only acceptance
Only joy
Only faith

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.” ~ William Shakespeare

I lay on the forest floor, a bed of leaves and needles beneath me, above me a canopy of redwoods blends into sky, the unamic scent of nourishing sea filling my nose, carried by the gentle breeze that caresses my flesh… I slip into silent solidarity with all, the singularity, that is God, that is LOVE, that is Infinity, the source of perfection; truth is not a word, it is the absolute silence, that defines the perfection.

Silence is not nothing, it is the experience of everything at once…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“God’s poet is silence! His song is unspoken
And yet so profound, and so loud, and so far,
That it thrills you and fills you in measures unbroken—
The unceasing song of the first morning star…”
~ Joaquin Miller