Having lots of money and things feels like freedom, but in truth they are only bars in the windows of our imagined prison cells, through which we allow ourselves only the briefest, fleeting, tortured, tantalizing glimpses of the true freedom that is a life lived in LOVE..,

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Life is a miracle
LOVE is the source of all miracles
You are a miracle
From LOVE's souce; 
Always remember, never forget...

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

The worst outcome of a life committed to LOVE is that you live your life in LOVE, striving to be in LOVE with all life and not a life squandered in fear, surviving life, afraid of the dark, so terrified of death, that life's process itself becomes your mortal enemy, as so cravenly we now do...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." ~ Arthur Rubinstein.

Devil or no devil we and we alone are responsible for manifesting this fearful, loveless thing we call evil; we must own our false creation and banish its existence or else we will become victims of the fate that we have long predicted, evil, will ultimately bring...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.” ~ Robert Cormier

To believe in LOVE you must trust in LOVE; for if you cannot trust in the truth that is LOVE, the truth is then that it is not LOVE you seek belief in, but something else, something of the  flesh and eyes, not of the soul and heart.

To trust in LOVE, to believe in LOVE, you must remember that no breath will ever be your last and that every breath you take is the life, the breath of God shared infinitely by all...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Afterall, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another humanbeing is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love. Antonio; Hidden Mountain” ~ Sammy Sutton

Capitalism is a vacuum, a glutinous maw sucking away all in its path. 

It is just a mouth devouring; with no eyes, to see the devastation it leaves blindly in its wake; no ears, to hear the screams from life it greedily takes; no hands, to touch the earth it willingly forsakes; no tongue, to taste the polluted food it haphazardly creates; no nose, to smell the stench filled air it mindlessly makes; no heart, to feel the spirits lonely it lustily breaks.

We are not free, not free at all; the fallen, continuing to fall, slaves to the endlessly consuming monster we caress and from its clutches we hesitate to divest; for the more that is less.

No escape to the forest; the woods it owns
No escape to the streets; its criminal not to have a prison, a home

In fear's grasp it has us firmly held; only by saying no more and embracing LOVE can in freedom we dwell; can we be delivered from our living hell; as even dying is not an escape from the "free" market's cell; for it seems now capitalism owns our death as well.

LOVE to be freed; freed to be LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." ~ George Bernard Shaw

Fear based faith is the never changing, dead dogma of death
LOVE based faith is the ever evolving, living philosophy of life...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” ~ Helen Keller

True LOVE once remembered asks only of you, that you hold yourself always to the highest vision you have of yourself in the moment and to the highest vision you have in moment next; in doing to so you become the driving force of your own evolution, your ascension. Always knowing, never doubting you could be no more in that moment and that you could accept being no less.

Hypocrisy cannot fool LOVE and LOVE will not allow the rationalization of less than the personal perfection; your pure heart whispers you can be...

The surest way for one to break their own heart is to knowingly, willfully fail to be the perfection in LOVE they have found.

Remember always the perfection LOVE has revealed to you today, is merely a stepping stone to the perfection LOVE will reveal to you tomorrow.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less." ~ Pir Vilayat Khan

I am LOVE's gypsy, a wanderer of infinite space and time; the eternal I roam, I have no home, no castle, but all is my kingdom come, my heaven...

Fear clouds purpose; 
LOVE brings clarity to being...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.” ~ Deepak Chopra

Violence is like rot in a mighty oak, slowly eating the tree from the inside out, depriving it of it nutrients, until even slightest breeze will bring it crashing down; violence rots the mind and spirit of a man, as where violence is committed LOVE cannot be and deprived of the Soul's nourishment that LOVE brings, neither can we... is man to now beware the breeze?

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world." ~ Deepak Chopra

True happiness like true LOVE is unconditional. True happiness is to find equal joy in both the sun and rain, in life and in death, always ready to dance and see the cause for celebration in either...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." ~ Omar Khayyam

With purest intention hug someone, anyone (be they willing of course) let your heart touch theirs, feel them come to the same rhythm, the same beat, lose any sense of me to the moment, feel yourself slip beyond space and time; surrendered now you are to the singularity, Infinity. In that now heart to heart embrace you experience the oneness that is LOVE eternal, that is what you are, that is what life needs to thrive, to be...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein

The king or queen who leads from LOVE lives to serve those who have chosen to follow; he or she, their joyful champion. While the king or queen who leads from fear survives only to have those who are forced to follow serve them; he or she, their miserable tyrant. 

One who leads from LOVE soars on the wings of Angels... 

One who leads from fear crawls on the bellies of maggots, forcing even the poor maggots to carry their quivering load.

True leaders out of LOVE, live to serve, all that is life.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." ~ Lao Tzu

LOVE makes no distinctions of beauty, no exceptions of class, no judgments of righteousness; LOVE has no velvet rope, it rolls out no red carpet. LOVE sees all as very important persons and celebrities; in love all are stars and no star shines brighter. LOVE's purpose is pure, LOVE's purpose is life and all is of greatest value to the Infinity that is life, to the truth that is LOVE.

While a king maybe needed to lead, the farmer is needed to feed the king, each serving life's purpose; each doing what each does best. One in truth and in fact no more or less important than the other; for without the king the body is headless and without food for the body there is no reason for a head. It takes both the king and the farmers purpose to be founded in LOVE, for whole being to thrive; if founded in something other, then it is neither the king or the farmer that alone dies, but the entire being.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." ~ Italian Proverb

On the lush lips of LOVE my soul slumbers in timeless bliss; the kiss of life. While the body rests not, embraced by fear, being slowly swallowed by the looming shadow of ever present death; death the brain has dreamt as permanent end and not the kiss from God to life next, always it is.

Immortality is only the acceptance of your truest lover's kiss away...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said." ~ Victor Hugo

Your heartbeat is my heartbeat
Your breath is my breath
Your life is my life
Your death is my death
Your smile is my smile
Your tear is my tear
Your love is my love
Your fear is my fear

Destiny ever entwined
All is one, one is all
Together we have risen
Together we shall fall...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness
chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.”
~ Walt Whitman

The open heart finds LOVE in everything and radiates the LOVE it finds, to the world that's surrounds it both within and without; its dawn breaks the horizon of the illusion with the light of the Soul's truth, the truth of LIFE, the truth of Infinity...

LOVE is not a luxury, it is a necessity for LIFE to BE!

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi

To forsake LOVE is to commit suicide by heartbreak and fear is the razor that cuts you open, leaving your spirit to bleed; is this to be the chosen fate of man, to die loveless, heartbroken, blade in hand?

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

Gather this moment your loved ones; the warmth of the summer sun is fading into Fall's alchemy, turning green leaves to golden dust. And from the decay of autumn, rises Winter's moon; the brown of earth now still, sleeping beneath blankets of December white. Seek your shelter from the savage storms to follow; in one another's embrace comforted. Until in the wet light of spring burst you forth; seeds sprouting, life renewed. Freed by LOVE, to greet and frolic in the amber rays of June days again.

Remembering it is only the trials of the illusion of seasons that change, the truth of our need of LOVE to flourish, thrive and grow cannot and forever never will; cycles of life nurtured in the womb of Infinity...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."

~W.H. Auden

Inside the heart of even the most evil hateful man there is LOVE or they would not be, our job as the faithful servants of LOVE's eternal flame is to find that ember of LOVE that smoldering ash inside every being and fan it until LOVE's flame rages within them, like an inferno, once more...

Hate is but the beacon of beings in distress, calling from the shadow, to bring them from their fear in which they have become lost, home to LOVE. 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Love those you hate you.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

To often we confuse lust with LOVE; but lust is but the craving of ever famished loins, while LOVE is the giving of endlessly overflowing hearts. 

Lust seeks only to quench its own desire, while love is the water that quells the thirst of the both the lover and the loved.

It has been said many time, in many tongues; that life is a thing that must be lusted after; this confusion, this misunderstanding of the Soul's eternal need with the finite desire of flesh, has led us astray and is one, but not the only source of mankind's decay. 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.” ~ Sylvia Plath

Fear is hubris; the expectation of oblivion 
Love is humble; the experience of Infinity...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real." ~ Thomas Merton

Fear is a sneaky thief lurking in the shadowy recesses of our being waiting to steal moments of our LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief." ~ William Shakespeare

I am alone; this is the disease, the myth of fear we have been, doing, surviving in.

We are one; this is the cure, the truth of LOVE we must now accept if ever we wish to be, to live.

Look around you, this truth is self evident in everything in natural universe, except for us. Then ask yourself; is everything else in existence a lie in what it is being or am I?

Most say they believe and worship God in one way, one form or another and yet we disrespect God's very nature; following instead our own unnatural path; am I missing something? I don't think so...

So as I see it, we can either accept the truth we have been preaching of God for millennium or we can admit now; that we are lazy, cowardly, liars, that relish in our methodology of self-serving, self-destruction more than we value the very process and experience of life itself.

And which ever is chosen, I really don't care, but let's at least admit knowingly or unwittingly that we are all complicit in the charade, turned cancer that human civilization has become, as our continued denial of the obvious, is quite frankly, just boring.

Happiness is only a choice away...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." ~ William Shakespeare

Teardrops and rainbows
Dragons and butterflies
Yesterdays and tomorrows
Hellos and goodbyes 
That's what life is made of
Rain clouds filled with pain
If man into madness does not shove
Then already you're insane 
But the choice always ours
Fear's asylum, life in vain
Or oneness, LOVE's eternal vow
Grateful to roam Infinity's plain...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Angel's fly in skies that are clear of both the clouds of fear and hope; for how could there be a trace of fear for those beings who are only LOVE and what need of they hope when all they experience is the perfection that is; freed are the Angels from the bondage of the tortures and ecstasies of flesh...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty." ~Richard Lovelace

The truth of LOVE even once remembered still takes practice to fully accept, as it asks you to see all that you once thought you knew; now as lie, distortion, deception, ill conceived illusion and to find all that once you were taught as having great value; now as worthless toys, meaningless activity, hollow treasure, painted paper. 

Not all have always believed as all believe now and soon all will not believe as all believe now again...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions." ~ Dave. E Smalley

Love is ME, that is all and all you need believe, speaks God; her voice echoing silently through Infinity, you, me, we...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." ~ John Lennon

Let your thinking emanate from the heart, the seat of your eternal soul, so that your feeling of the truth of LOVE is uninfluenced by your mortal senses, experience the rhythm, the glory of life in its every divine, blessed beat; through your heart is the doorway to heaven; through your heart you embrace the all that is God; through your heart you are humbled by the knowing...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." ~ Thomas Carlyle

Capitalism, consumerism, materialism an evil magician's grand illusions of fear, but the secrets to the tricks are the manipulations and distortions of trust and LOVE. And just as an any magic show what you think you see, what think is real, is not; while the truth of LOVE is. 

Trust no more thinking of the brain; trust now instinct of the heart...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion." ~ Javan