If we all looked at the face of each person we meet as if it were the face of our best, beloved, dearest friend and these were the last moments we would ever look into their soul through eyes, make notice of the beauty of their smile, then no matter where we were and no matter whose face was there when those our moments last come, the face we would always see would be the face of our best, beloved, dearest friend. And our best, beloved, dearest friend would be gazing always adoringly back in those our last moments last at the face of we.

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ~ Alfred Tennyson

The keys to each our eternal LOVE and happiness lie only within ourselves and if we cannot find them the chest containing that most glorious of treasures we all say we seek will never be unlocked and peace on Earth will never be found.

Your war is over 
You won 
Peace at last 
You LOVE yourself 
NOW you can LOVE all...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.” ~ Rumi

The greatest sorrow caused the spirit in experience of body, is not the unrequited want of being the LOVE of others, but not being the unconditional, unselfish LOVE needed by others.

In review at the end of your days here in this illusion; the source of your greatest remorse will not be for your broken heart, but for the hearts you broke in others.

Empathy has its own selfish rewards...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~  Leo Buscaglia

Humility, humbleness doesn't mean taking on the perspective that you are less important or not as special as something else. Humility and humbleness means that through the perspective of unconditional LOVE that no-thing is more important or more special than anything else; it is remembering everything is equally important, equally special and equally LOVED in the eyes and heart of GOD...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If you serve your wants only you may have a fleeting moments of ecstasy, but if you serve the needs of others you will have found the source of your eternal joy...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Unconditional LOVE is LOVE given without expectation or requirement...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There are two types of people, with two different ways of perceiving any show of magic. The first type perceives of the illusion as real and the wizard an all powerful force to be feared. The second type knows the secret, the TRUTH to the illusion and LOVE's the magician for creating in them awareness and in doing so blessing them to be the witness bearers of the grand illusions they manifest.

If LIFE were a magic show, the world an illusion (it is), which type would you be, what would your perceptions inform you to see.

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whether you call and or envision it as God, LOVE or Infinity, the infinite unknowable; having relationship with "IT" is neither exclusive or rare. You don't need religious affiliation or even a belief in God for that matter; all you have to do is accept that you will always beyond ever ability to measure not know more than you will ever know, that everything is perfect and that there is nothing to fear...
Just LOVE, Kip
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 "An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others." ~ A. W. Tozer

From dreams conceived in the happiness of faith and LOVE's union consummated, are born miracles...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“I am realistic – I expect miracles.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer

Entranced with Infinity, silently the eternal LOVE song plays, as through endless Heavens I waltz with God...

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

Human beings choose the complicated self deceptions of fear, over the simple and innate truth of LOVE, to satisfy the ego's need to feel as if it is the master of the universe, in control of everything, more important and intelligent than any actually are, as most terminally narcissistic and tragically insecure beings, not BEING, always do...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.” ~ David Richo

God, I pray to you this day that all humankind remember the truth of you; your omnipotent, divine, infinite wisdom and cease now, this moment harming and competing with one another out of fear of death. And begin healing and inspiring one another with your LOVE, the LOVE of LIFE, the LOVE that is LIFE eternal... amen!

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

What Is Left Unchanged...

This I vow with the might of all I am
That I shall cherish and LOVE
The warmth of the summer light
For soon enough dancing leaves shall fall
Ushering in winter's chill and longest night
Stealing the warmth of my beloved summer light
But tears of grief I shall not weep
For seasons always come and always go
And what is left unchanged; this I know
Through all imagined pain and strife
Is my LOVE of gift of LIFE...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." ~ Anatole France

For so long as shepherds by example lead and despite overwhelming evidence contrary, that conflict resolution by violent means is effective and acceptable, so too shall their flocks.

Violent seeds sown shall always and only reap evermore bountiful harvests of violence.

Violence will cease when dusk falls on the age of fear and ignorance and dawn breaks on the age of enlightenment and LOVE...

My prayers to those who perished and were maimed in Boston yesterday while celebration of running for LIFE.

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” ~ E.F. Schumacher

Ignorance is not bliss; it is a self induced coma of consciousness, where one willfully chooses not to seek wisdom, remembering, truth, enlightenment, LOVE. It is the ego imprisoning the soul in the myopic comfort zone of fear, where one is blind to the unknown, to Infinity, to God...

Unless you open your eyes in the darkness, you can never see the stars. 

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin 
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“Fear always springs from ignorance.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we fear we detest and despise 
What we LOVE we ADORE and CHERISH...

Fear nothing: detest and despise nothing
LOVE everything; ADORE and CHERISH everything that is LIFE...

In the castle of fear and spite lives the king of ruin
In the KINGDOM of LOVE and GLORY resides the GOD of HEAVEN...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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"The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart --not something that comes upon the earth or after death." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Only Always There...

There are no demons in the darkness
Only your shadow imaginings of the unknown
But once you step into the unknown
It becomes the known
And only always there;
There is more, but different purer light
Only always there more, but purer LOVE
Leap into the fear
Fall freely into the unknown
Seek your new light
Face your new dawn
Embrace the one true LOVE
Touch the INFINITE face of GOD...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." ~ Denis Waitley

Competition is fear, hoarding, warring, frightening.

Inspiration is LOVE, sharing, cooperating, enlightening...

In a system where someone must win and someone must lose, eventually all do; lose that is.

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams

When to live in LOVE becomes your LIFE's chosen intention, you will experience dreams begin to manifest and miracles to occur...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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"Our intention creates our reality." ~ Wayne Dyer

Unless and soon our worlds leaders be they religious, governmental or corporate of ilk are held to the same level of accountability as the common man, there will be no more and soon, leaders left to lead or common men left to rule. And we all must be and soon more accountable only to LOVE!

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” ~ Thomas Paine

History shows we have become passionate experts, faithfully proving time and again that fear can never succeed. What could it hurt NOW, to put the same passion and faith into becoming experts that prove this time and for all time that LOVE can never fail? 

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.” ~ Bessie Anderson Stanley

To truly LOVE all means to have empathy and forgiveness for even your sworn and mortal enemy; then there will be enemies no more, only new LOVES...

In war there are no victors or heros, only villains and victims.

Only in LOVE do we all win, will we all heal; standing together, as ONE, champions of PEACE...

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

We should always try to feel like we are young, but think like we are old; for only with the light of our lives dimming to golden dusk do we truly come to appreciate the treasure that is LIFE...

We live, we learn, we remember, but to quickly often times we go back to forgetting... Just LOVE, Kip Baldwin

Deception of self is fear; permanent separation, mortality, death our falsehood.

Illumination of self is LOVE; eternal connection, immortality, LIFE our truth...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic." ~ Anais Nin

Let LOVE in and it will come to you, it is always there waiting for you to be one...

To be one with all that is; from the cool bay breeze of the early  evening, tinted with fog making the rolling hills beyond alive with sounds, scents and colors of spring, to the leaves the breeze shudders, as it inhales and exhales vibrating life, in your consciousness shimmering emerald green.

To be one with LOVE is to be one in harmony with the eternal nature of all that is; is to truly live...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things." ~ William Wordsworth

How can so many be so lonely, when in truth they are never alone?

How can so many be so angry, endlessly warring scarring such a beautiful home?

How can so many be so greedy, when given was an abundance of wealth for all?

How can so many of their own demons be so fearful, when into God's waiting embrace they only must let themselves fall?

How can so many only talk about the LOVE they want to have, when they only need start BEING the LOVE they ARE?

Heaven is here, in this and every moment, not out there amongst the distant stars...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.” ~ Joseph Campbell

GOD IS only and can only BE perfection. GOD created man and all blessing us with freewill; the ability to believe in and perceive of imperfection, which allows us to BE the witness bearers of the absolute perfection that IS our creator, GOD. The perfection that GOD absolute conceives of only in abstract, but through her creations, created out of the perfect LOVE she IS, experiences imperfection as real, but in truth is only their illusions; mirages in the ever shifting infinite sands of space and time. GOD created for us out of the perfect, infinite LOVE she IS infinite, infinite, infinite lifetimes, existences; her dreams of matter, drops in her never ending sea of soul. Each experience blessed with a unique, but always incomplete, therefore always infinitely changing perspective of the absolute perfection that is our creator... GOD, that IS LOVE, that IS INFINITY.

So while yes, we and all are immortal, infinite, always in eternal ascension; only GOD IS INFINITY, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent...

Just LOVE,
Kip Baldwin
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“If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.” ~ T.H. White

To choose LOVE and help; the manifesting of joy's whitest light in yourself and the other of which in truth there is not one, is to be enlightened, courageous, a master.

To choose fear and harm; the manifesting of despair's darkest shadow in yourself and the other of which in truth there is not one, is to be ignorant, cowardly, a fool.

Love's warriors, bravest of heart, strongest of spirit, remember only wars won are wars never fought and that all wars are but wars with self.

Just LOVE,
Kip
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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”  ~ Maya Angelou