Once I stopped expecting LOVE, I began the experience of LOVE and the experience of LOVE was beyond my wildest expectations... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting." ~ Robert Brault

The greater the challenge, the suffering, the grief, the greater the joy, the wisdom, the faith, the LOVE needed to face, overcome, heal and to ascend beyond; LOVE is and will always be, whether in body, spirit or even soul, our infinite untapped potential there waiting to be remembered and realized... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ~ William Faulkner

LOVE transforms the desperate stranger, the cringing shadow self in all of us, into the comforting, divine blackness of Infinity that defines the light, we know as life...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” ~ Rumi

BE humble
BE subtle
BE still 
BE silent
BE calm
BE meek
BE wise
BE joy
BE free
BE peace 
BE LOVE

Inherit earth
Inherit life
Inherit creation
Inherit eternity
Inherit Infinity

BE spirit
BE soul
BE God
BE... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all." ~ William Temple

The remembering of LOVE heals and fills the hole, the forgetting in fear rips in the Soul; LOVE makes one what fear tears and hath torn asunder...

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

I am beyond expectation of tomorrow
I am not regretted memory
I am experience; the every now
I am the truth that defies explanation
I am LOVE that transcends defined word 
I am Soul in body, embodied 
I spirit freed, free
I am Infinity, to be
I am guardian angel, wisdom gathered 
I am guide, not warrior
I am shelter, not prison
No harm can befall you, when we are as one
Accept my embrace
I am you...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.” ~ Criss Jami

Once a desperate sailor heading toward certain shipwreck, lost on the violent, greedy sea of the lies of fear, until LOVE like a lighthouse beacon shown, guiding me through hates densest fog and angers darkest shadow, narrowly escaping imminent demise, upon the jagged savage rocks of lost memory and false regret, to the safe calm harbor, home to warm by faith's gentle flame. to bask in the glow ofremembering, the truth of unconditional LOVE's eternal perfection...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
~ Matthew Arnold

I have experienced the mirages of ecstasy and despair in the barren wasteland of my ego, now I long only to feel bliss, the bountiful garden, forever in bloom that is my Soul in LOVE... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.” ~ Anthon St. Maarten

Oh ye Kings and Queens of delusion, facilitators of fear based deceptions, how you waste your and our lives crawling apart in the shadowy terrors of your complications, when you and we could be soaring embracing in the brilliant simple illumination that is LOVE's light... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Just as the Sun's purpose for being is to shine light, serving all life, our eternal destiny is to share LOVE, letting it flow, unimpeded by the impotence of mortal thought; serving, preserving, pre-serving all that is life; we are meant forever to be the guardian, guiding, sheltering Angels of God's infinite creation...

Be as LOVE is, as that is what we are; those that have remembered will understand...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"An angel lost his wing,
Crooked he did fly."
~Terri Guillemets

Why LOVE? 

Why believe in LOVE if there is only Infinity, unending creation without judgement or perhaps nothing more at all, no Heaven, no hell, just an end? 
Because in all this life's experience, all that I have seen, tasted, touched, heard, smelled or thought, LOVE is the only thing that makes sense and feels ultimately, absolutely perfect to my heart and soul.

Why LOVE? Because through the eyes of LOVE the weed and the rose are of equal beauty and of equal import.

That is why LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

With each breath aware, taste the divine passion of all creation; with each knowing beat of heart, feel the pulse of life sublime; with each conscious thought, awaken to the infinite LOVE that is God, that is one; the truth of singularity... 

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

Practice patience... for you find when the final shadow of fear, fades into oneness with the last glimmer of hope, it will be only the perfection of unconditional LOVE that remains; there, being is, as it always is... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.” ~ Rumi

It is the fool blinded by flesh that attempts to use LOVE for seeking the acquisition of fleeting fame, finite fortune, the illusions of control; not seeing the accomplishment of unconditional LOVE is its own infinite reward... 

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

Diplomacy founded in LOVE; the discovering of the vast common ground we all share and upon which all life is built; leading to the celebration of, rather than the abhorrence of our differences, is the blueprint for lasting peace...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." ~ Audre Lorde

Better a forever death, from a belly starved of food; then eternal survival, with a soul starved of LOVE... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Peace is realized when one comes to the acceptance that each moment is absolutely perfect and that no moment is more perfect than the other; when the moments are experienced in LOVE... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal” ~ John Lennon

LOVE is both creation's absolute answer and ultimate question. 

You ask; what is this thing life that I find myself now and forever embroiled in? LOVE answers from the eternal mystery; LOVE... 

And then you ask: help me to understand the point to my question? And again LOVE answers from the endless unknown; LOVE...

The answer to our entangled, overly complex pondering is LOVE's infinite simplicity...

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

LOVE, like God and Infinity is beyond reason or definition, as all exist outside the reach of comprehension and explanation. 

LOVE is experienced in the NOW, the moment, not in fading memory of yesterday or distant dream of tomorrow... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. ...." ~ Joseph Campbell

Long did I suffer my Autumns' free fall of withering doubt; surrendering almost life to my Winter's bitter chill of frozen desperation; but with my Spring's gentle rains came patience blossoming to joy; remembered now in my Summer sun shining, what was always there, bliss sublime, the perfection of LOVE.

LOVE abhors our desperation, but waits ever patiently for our panic to pass...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Perfect love is perfectly patient.” ~ Neal A. Maxwell

LOVE is the information that can't be lost and the energy that cannot be destroyed.

LOVE is the never-ending story of creation and the unlimited intention that makes the story real.

Life is the manifestation of the merging of the imagination and will of LOVE; the dreamer's need to make her dreams known.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” ~ John Lennon

God created individual souls gifted with immortality so that the joy of sharing LOVE may be experienced infinitely for all eternity. 

And so it is not for the body that we insatiably crave life everlasting, it is so that we may ever continue to LOVE and be loved. 

And I now with the truth of LOVE remembered can fathom no reason other of need or want to BE forever... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” ~ Brian Tracy

Be aware to be not so infatuated by the shallow, fleeting lusts of the flesh that you are blinded to the infinite LOVE of the Soul; the source of the true self's eternal pleasures and ecstasies.

Your fears vanish and your bliss begins when you release yourself from delusions of control and give yourself to LOVE.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." ~ Emmanuel Teney

With my last coin I wished into the well; Infinity answered and deep into LOVE I fell and continue to fall.

LOVE frees us from our attachment to resistance to change; in LOVE we embrace the unknown and find it is LOVE we are embracing.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"The flesh is the surface of the unknown." ~ Victor Hugo

The opposite of LOVE is not hate, not fear, not even "evil". LOVE is and is the reason everything is; so the opposite of LOVE, is nothing.

I am something, we all are something, pieces of everything that is and since we are something, not nothing, LOVE must we be; for again LOVE is everything, everything we are and are pieces of being...

I am LOVE, LOVE is the only reason I am and my only reason to be.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.” ~ Sorin Cerin

To LOVE I am both master and slave, lord and servant; so as I serve LOVE so LOVE serves I... 

just LOVE...
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“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Beyond the body;
No touch
No taste 
No smell
No sight 
No sound
No thought
Only feeling
Feeling life
Feeling LOVE
Feeling God
Being true self
All selves
No selves
Birth
Death
The space between
Endless
Beginningless
Infinity....

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” ~ Kahlil Gibran