Fear is the doing of nothing
LOVE is the being of everything...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The Way to do is to be.” ~ Lao Tzu

One of the by products of self awareness is ego; ego in the extreme is insecurity, insecurity in the extreme is self loathing, self loathing taken to the extreme manifests as spiritual imbalance, leading to depression, madness, suicide and or homicide. We see now in humanity the extremes of ego, insecurity and self loathing taken to their nth degree. Only a healthy, secure awareness of self, that exists beyond the reflection of the looking glass, can restore balance; through first self soothing, then self healing and then finally self loving. Only by loving and saving ourselves can our selves be loved and saved.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ C.G. Jung

Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha all shared the dream that one day all men would live as equals in truth, peace, harmony, happiness, freedom and LOVE.

We stand at a final crossroads one path leads to realization of the dream and the other the annihilation of the species the dream was dreamt for.

I offer this as admonishment, an observation of facts, a defining of choice to be made, not harsh warning or threat; for I know no being can be feared into loving.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

REMEMBER THE DREAM...

Unconditional LOVE and unconditional forgiveness both share the same requirement, to LOVE another without condition you must first LOVE yourself without condition and to forgive another without condition you must first forgive yourself without condition. In doing so LOVE and forgiveness become your natural states of being no matter the other or the condition. 

I already LOVE you, because I already LOVE me...
I already forgave you, because I already forgave me...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." ~ Louis B. Smedes

Though you have chosen to die on bed of thorns my LOVE covered by a blanket of fear, to your final day I will stay, until you're fading light is gone and my final tear for you hath fallen, so that you may know in your final breath, forever I have loved you still. Still now, silent now, in the arms of LOVE now, resting in peace, the last of the sadists and masochists has passed; I need weep for you no more. Sweet dreams of Infinity my LOVE know that I  loved you because I understood you, because I was you...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.” ~ John Steinbeck

Fear distorts and strips from memory the joy of experiencing in purest form what already is perfection. 

Decadence and greed is fear perverting and hoarding the happiness and abundance that is life, that is LOVE.

We have been given all we need to live in bliss, it is our irrational want that leads to tribulation in this. 

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant." ~ Lucretius

We say we fight for life, but have we forgot the life we are fighting for?

For now it seems that our fight for life has become a life of fight and life for only fighting is not a life worth fighting for.

When once what was your source of protection, becomes the source you must be protected from, it is no longer the source of your protection, but the gravest source of your mortal danger.

If every of life's moments intention is to fight and protect, fighting and protecting will be how all life's moments are wasted.

If every of life's moments intention is to be in peace and surrender, being in peace and surrendering will be how all life's moments are treasured.

Each breath of life to sweet, each moment in LOVE to dear, to spend a single more fighting life's current, drowning in fear.

Fearing is surviving to fight, not to die
Loving is living in harmony, to BE...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." ~ Helen Keller

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If God made any mistakes in the creating of man it is that she gave and loved us too much and in doing so we have evolved to become the spoiled brats, the school yard bullies, plucking feathers from the wings of Angels just to gleefully see them cry. The lesson however all overly indulged children must one day learn, that we should be learning, but are still ignoring, is the very short fall it is from prince to pauper.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous." ~ Aldous Huxley

Standing at the divide between man and God; on one side I see pavement cold with no memory of the planet's history, its evolution; houses made from murdered trees and raped forests, you can hear Mother screaming. 

And on the other even rocks alive warm with the wisdom of knowing what it means to come into being; trees living, thriving, homes to a rainbow of animal spirits, Mother slumbering gently, peacefully in LOVE's embrace.

God is life, creation, Infinity, LOVE, truth. Man is death, destruction, mortality, fear, lie.

But reality remembered there is no division and only one side; the other only vivid nightmarish fever dream.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?” ~ Rumi

Life is like an infinite ocean and experiencing it is a lot like swimming; if you fear the water and fight it with your every movement, soon your energy will be drained and you will drown, but if you LOVE truly the water, letting it energize, buoy and carry you with every breath, you will swim forever... so much ocean to be discovered; swim freely in LOVE, live fully life. 

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If fear is the truth and real and LOVE the lie and the illusion, then let me die now the deceived, forever cocooned in the stillness and silence where all lovers dream as one. 

You cannot be in the same moment in both apart in the body and wholly a part of the soul, so for all my moments to come I choose holy soul; even if it is soul that is not real, I still choose soul; I still choose the delusion of Heaven's wholeness, to this tortured reality of apartness.

Heaven in the simplest of explanations is our return to the infinite oneness; where there is no duality, only singularity. It is from that singularity that, that core, that source, that Heaven, that bursts forth, all existences by illusions of comparison.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.” ~ Fernando Pessoa

Man is created, fear chooser, chaos bringer, mortally ignorant; God is creator, LOVE giver, infinite organizer, eternally omnipotent

Fear is the small and petty mind; while LOVE is the genius that embraces Infinity and beyond.

Man is the self caged hamster, on the wheel. He must run, run, run or the other rats will get round the wheel first; see how fast they run over and over and over to nowhere.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Fear disempowers, manifesting delusions of strength through force physical; only the strong survive.

LOVE empowers, sharing the reality of divine might by embracing the Soul's gentle wisdom; The meek shall inherit the Earth...

Being fearless means not that you have no fear left to face, it means only that you are unafraid of facing the fears you have left.

Souls across infinite space and time, 
Countless hearts seen in rainbows
Eternally and ethereally entwined
As LOVE's light shines through the prisms
Of the final sorrowful drops of pained rain
Falling in the wake of fear's storm passing...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." ~ Rumi

To begin to understand one of the most confounding precepts of Infinity, that time is an illusion, a tool, an information management system to keep our primitive brain from being overwhelmed by the fact that everything that was, is and ever will be; already is. All you need do to begin to grasp this concept is to ponder that there are seven billion or so individual, but interconnected realities happening right now, all at the same time. You certainly are not aware of all the other individual interconnected realities, but they are happening regardless. Now multiply that by infinite other individual but entwined realities, in infinite other universes, in infinite other dimensions, and then you will have just begun to see through the the most minute pinhole into the world of absolute truth that is the absolute, that is Infinity.

Acceptance of Infinity humbles ones ego and opens ones mind and heart; freeing ones spirit to the infinite probabilities that is life, that is LOVE, that is to BE...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." ~ Albert Einstein

It has been said that you have not committed a sin if you did not know a sin  has been committed, but once known a sin committed and the sin is committed again, you then are a sinner. To my mind then those who know a sin and then commit the sin and profit from the sin committed, especially at the well being of all others, are no longer sinners, but the epitome, embodiment and definition of evil.

The leaders of our world have committed and profited from that sin known over and over and over again, from the beginning of time immemorial; selling and surrendering their souls to evil. And because from their known sin committed and profited from, were built all the systems and organizations that are the foundation of human civilization, all are therefore constructs of evil.

Sin and evil being defined, as that which does further and serve life's eternal process, as that which is not LOVE.

Look and listen, with eyes and ears of your soul and only then will you know truth.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

My spirit separated a moment from LOVE, is a second my heart skips, separated from life; no beat, no rhythm, no reason to BE. But with LOVE's return always the beat goes on, the rhythm is found, a breath is taken, my Soul inhales and exhales, into spirit and body. LOVE is the endless, beginning-less, heartbeat of God, giving timeless rhythm to her infinite creation, eternal life...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." ~ Joseph Campbell

The empathetic observer to tragedy, disaster, catastrophe is traumatized by the experience of the event, even though not theirs and how could it be other when all are one, connected eternally? You feel the physical pain, the emotional distress and duress as yours, though again, it both is and is not.

It is that feeling, though I know all is illusion, though I know I am now but an observer to mankind's nightmarish show; still mortally wounded and pained am I, by our never ending impassioned desire to self-inflict trauma.  Which completely and without question is the sole source of our species slide toward demise and ultimately extinction; unless and soon the truth that is LOVE is dreamt and embraced.

I have dreamt and embraced the truth that is LOVE and whether now or some distant now, all will come to remember and know the truth of LOVE's dream; for at the beginning and end of it all - of which there is neither -LOVE that id truth. is all that is.

But if I could ask one small favor, could we please embrace the truth of dream that is LOVE, this now? As I do not know how much more of our willful continual ignorance of mind and chosen repeated maiming of flesh and spirit my Soul can endure.

Because this I share with heartache and heartbreak great; it shames and grieves me to no end, that I am neither happy, nor proud, to call myself a part of the species human; feeling perhaps now is the time to do so no longer.

Brother and sister creatures and entities of the sea, forest, sky, space and beyond, Father-Mother I am ready to come home, to wander with all again in absolute LOVE... Infinity.

Prayer of LOVE to all the children that are species man; for they have forgotten and truest true know not what they do, who they are, why they are or even it seems where they are; the spaceship called Earth, hurdling through the infinite, sublimely beautiful, awe inspiring illusions of space and time, come enjoy the ride...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The beasts on two legs, left the wilderness and swore they left the savage of the woods and oceans behind and below, they fancied themselves "civilized"; even delusionally arrogantly fantasying that they built a "civilization", but without LOVE even outside the wild they feared and scurried from, due to fragile flesh and feeble brains, their beastly savagery only grew. Until now even the beasts in forests and seas tremble, as their shadow crosses the sky.

The most rabid, ravenous beasts are these; monsters that with thumbs in opposition have sowed terror from their terror.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor." ~ William Wordsworth

There is truth; known to be

There is no you
There is no me
There is only LOVE
There is only we
There is absolute one
There is absolute Infinity...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun see how they fly
I'm crying" ~ John Lennon & Paul McCartney

Purgatory is the city man built on earth pretending Godhood while still behaving the most barbaric beast.

Purgatory is the place where one claims LOVE of life while living every moment fearing and bringing death.

Purgatory is the place between forgetting fear and remembering LOVE,
between surviving in flesh and living in soul, between being fooled by lie and believing truth.

Purgatory is choosing to dance with one foot in hells ballroom.

Heaven is realized only when faith in LOVE's infinite song is complete and the dance of eternal life burns the feet no more.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,
Where we are tortured and remain forever.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is must we ever be.
And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that is not heaven.”
~ Christopher Marlowe

What a sense freedom it is to be able to walk into the forest, into the wilderness, no cell phones beeping, ringing, tweeting, Facebooking; only the wind, a sea of browns and greens, birds chirping, creatures chattering, the air filled with lingering scents of wild sage and Manzanita. A reconnection with truth, reality, nature, life. Yes, the freedom of just being a part of being; the beauty of just one sacred breath, LOVE of the divine awareness of life, of creation. So blessed are we...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” ~ Anne Frank

Fear is chaos and LOVE is order. Man says he wants order and abhors chaos never admitting or even realizing that it is he himself that is the chaos he abhors. In fact, if truth be told, in all the universe known by man, all is order; the ONLY chaos that exists, that man says he abhors, is the chaos that he himself is. Fear is chaos, LOVE is order...

To fear change/death is to invite chaos, as it dams the flow that is life's  eternal and infinite process unfolding; for there to be life, LOVE must flow unimpeded; breach the dam, end the chaos, let LOVE flow...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin  
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 "Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." ~ George Santayana

The hardest fear to overcome when realizing LOVE's fullest infinite potential, is not the first remembering of what you in LOVE in truth are, but the last letting go of what without LOVE you were not. 

Falling is always frightening, allowing yourself to fall completely into LOVE is no different, but you must let go your final fear if you are to freely fall.

Make this your mantra; fearlessly freely I am letting go of what I was not, to fall completely into the LOVE I am...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love." ~ Lukas Foss

The collective despair of those who do not yet know and believe in the true power of LOVE, is almost overwhelming for those who do. Like insanity constantly beaconing; a siren, a banshee beseechingly mesmerizing; come back to the asylum. 

It is only by LOVE's grace from the straight jacket of civilization they did slip to begin with and it is only by LOVE's grace that they thrive, free and sane. 

With Angels, free, LOVE's choir of Seraphim harkens you from mankind's madhouse to Infinity soar...

Madness is not believing you can, with LOVE beneath your wings fly, madness is being so fearful you never try.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.” ~ Akira Kurosawa

Light giving is not something a star must do, light is just what the stars are

LOVE giving is not something we must do, LOVE is just what we are

Just be the LOVE you are and like a star, for Infinity you will shine...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." ~ John Lennon

The more I am remembered in LOVE,
The more what I once believed I was
Dissipates into the truth of what I am

I am not flower, nor am I even sky,
I am beyond the beyond and nearer the near
I am that place that is no place
I am LOVE in LOVE, matter-less, without fear

In LOVE all is and are perfection
Waiting to be remembered...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections." ~ Saint Augustine

The ship was built; the ship sank

The deck chairs were rearranged; the ship sank

Again the deck chairs were rearranged and again; the ship sank

Again and again and again the deck chairs were rearranged and again and again; the ship sank

Finally the ship builders after eons awoke; untold resources had they squandered and billions of lives had they wasted; it was not the placement of deck chairs that was flawed, but the philosophy behind the design of the ship itself

How many times must the deck chairs be rearranged and the ship named Fear sink, before a new ship is designed, crafted and built of LOVE; that shall forever in peace and freedom sail to eternities distant shores... once more

That will be named ship named The Awakening!

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.” ~ John Steinbeck

We are all fools or geniuses. The true genius listens to his instincts, follows LOVE. While the fool listens to only other fools and follows fear. It is our choice which one we are. 

You have no idea what you know, until you allow yourself to remember what you innately, instinctually know.

We are all Einstein's in LOVE...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside." ~ Honore de Balzac

My choices in life have covered my soul with scars and not one do I regret, for my scars mirror yours. And in that mirroring of scars, that shared experience of wounds and losses is my blessing of truest understanding, my gift of purest empathy with all. I love my scars and not one would I remove, because each is a reminder of the vulnerability that we must all have to experience the LOVE we share. LOVE may heal all wounds, but the healing leaves scars and the scars are beautiful; I cherish my scars, one and all, as they allow me to LOVE you better.

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

Arrogance nurtures madness
Control manifests collapse
Greed yields thievery 
Expectation spreads despair
Fear breeds failure

Humility teaches wisdom
Cooperation fosters evolution
Generosity reveals abundance
Experience ignites joy
LOVE Fathers life...

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

As great a joy as feeling LOVE in the embrace of those we call family, friends, lovers; a greater joy still is feeling that same LOVE in the embrace of one once called foe. From this moment on I vow to selfishly embrace and LOVE all I have or would have once called enemy for I am an addict strung out on feeling the high, the joy it brings.

You can tell a LOVE junkie from the track marks on his heart.

Just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." ~ C. S. Lewis