LOVE is the truth that shall set us free...

Wilted roses long dormant,
Frozen in winter's chill,
Blossoming in the spring sun

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me." ~ Simone de Beauvoir

Why is that when our greatest fear is personal unavoidable extinction (death) and even greater than that our species wide unavoidable extinction that we do all we can unintentionally intentional, to hasten its arrival?

We push each other away, savagely, barbarically doing all within the power of our very limited intelligence and even more limited wisdom, to destroy ourselves. When our greatest joy, our greatest sense of feeling complete, is our connection to one another and the sublime soul level happiness we feel from seeing and helping one another to heal, succeed, achieve, ascend.

I said; our personal and species wide extinction is, "unavoidable" and it is; for no matter what we do or how far our matter based technology advances, the sun will burn out one day, as will all other suns we may ever find. You see, everything, everything of matter "in time" one day dies, changes, transforms into something new; this is not only the foundational understanding of all faith, but the foundational understanding of nature's cycles and even physics.

But while these are certainties, they are not endings, they are just part of life's infinitely unfolding process.

So perhaps if I could be so bold to advise; it would be a good idea to rather than surviving, warring, destroying, consuming, trying in vain to avoid the unavoidable, control the uncontrollable, we choose instead to accept what is, as it is and as it always will be; thriving, nurturing, living every moment as the highest possible vision we can imagine of ourselves, of our species, of life itself.

We must experience this illusion and all illusions fearlessly, as we would if it were the last moment before our extinction, as in truth it may well be and if not now it soon will be, in some near moment next. Thus making every moment a moment of greater awakening, awareness and remembering that all that matters, all that ever matters, is not matter, but the eternal, infinite we LOVE share and are.

In doing this we will stop looking back regretting, angry over what could have been and what we perceive to have been taken from us, instead rejoicing in the abundant paradise that is and all the paradises yet to forever come.

I welcome my death, my unavoidable extinction; in facing the fear of my false mortality, I have gained a profound appreciation for both my true immortality and the LOVE from which it is sourced.

I accept, that all I can do is accept, never knowing, never controlling, just BEING, BEING LOVE!

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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Said and put into perspective as only George Carlin could; a good laugh at ourselves goes along way...

“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!

We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… asshole.”
― George Carlin

The secret to eternal peace and freedom, is to LOVE all that life is...

The secret to loving all that life is, is to LOVE all that LOVE is...

LOVE is thy LOVE
LOVE is thy lover
LOVE all thy lover is
There is no other...

Life is the bed upon which LOVE's addicted lovers entwined, forever lay... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
~ Rumi

If the more LOVE you give the more LOVE you feel and the more you help others to be healed the more you heal, then the generous sharing of spirit is the most selfish act of all and empathy is the ultimate expression of that divine selfishness. 

And if all this is so then I pray with all my heart and soul that I maybe endlessly loving, helplessly helpful, forever, divinely, selfishly empathetic...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein

Innocence is the pure experience of LOVE's simplicity we all share, before we are tainted by the expectations and delusions of mankind's fearful complexities; we are born innocent babes with perfect angelic sight, but as we rush to adulthood we become blind to LOVE's simple truth... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.” ~ William Shakespeare

Before my true, humble, ego-less self remembered the LOVE all is, I was like the moon having forgotten the Sun, engulfed by shadow, but now sliver by sliver revealed, shining in the light... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

LOVE is not some thing we look for in tomorrows to have and BE; LOVE is the thing we always have and ARE, even when we have forgotten and don't know remember that LOVE we always have and ARE...

We then WERE all ways LOVE always LOVE...
We now ARE all ways LOVE always LOVE...
We will BE all ways LOVE always LOVE...

No matter the mask we don from experience to experience we must allow ourselves to remember and just BE all ways LOVE always LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Never fall in love?"
"Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”
~ Ernest Hemingway

The greatest of all sacred, eternal and divine laws is LOVE, for if it were followed, lived and kept to its fullest intent and purpose, there would be need of no other laws. 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…" ~ E.E. Cummings

Life, alive, living, vibrating 
Noiseless, motionless
Information, energy, intention
Untainted, pure, emotion
Feeling, joy, peace, bliss
Bound...

LOVE sings silent; experience what you know
LOVE dances still; experience what you know

Be the opera without sound
The ballet without movement

You are me
I am you
Whole...

LOVE is singing
LOVE is dancing
Hush, be still;

Experience what you know...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.” ~ François Lelord

Where fear repels, LOVE attracts
Where fear is repulsive, LOVE is attractive
Fear is the rule of repulsion 
LOVE is the law of attraction... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.” ~ Hermann Hesse

LOVE's essence permeates all that I am
My essence permeates all that is LOVE
LOVE is the essence shared by all creation
LOVE is the sublime subtle vibration; 
that is the essence of God... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LOVE life, fill it with all the passion and joy of your immortal soul and be free forever fear of death that is your mortal shell, hollow, surviving in apathy and sorrow; heaven begins when you forgive and LOVE yourself, as you are, for what in truth you ARE, for what in truth you always will BE and allow the illusion of your personal hell chosen by you, manifested by you, to end. 

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

The sun rises over the ocean's rocky crest, while wild turkeys with tails fanned like prancing peacocks gobble and song birds in towering eucalyptus trees sing praise to the dawn; loving tender brush strokes of God's sublime masterpiece, nature, revealed in the first rays of morning light, far from the mad, muddled, mundane mess of man's ill conceived manifestations of ego... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.” ~ Blaise Pascal

In Native American culture rabbit is fear and calls all it fears to it; deer is gentleness, in its LOVE all fear shrinks before it.

Be at war, hateful, afraid like rabbit and your shadows will rule you

Be at peace, gentle, loving like deer and you rule your shadows... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” ~ Leo Rosten

The lover divine experiences life, all lives, in a sublime stillness, a bliss that can come only from the boundless patience born of LOVE absolute; for they now know they can watch the hands on the clock of eternity for incarnation after incarnation, no tick, no tock, never will they see them move. As such is the meaninglessness of time when laid over the tapestry of infinite creation, the masterpiece God that was without beginning and can have no end... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Time has no meaning,
Love will endure..” 
~ Jude Deveraux

LOVE like a river always chooses the path of least resistance and LOVE like the river too, seeks only to flow home to its source; flow, BE like the river and LOVE will take you home to your source; but first the rain must fall before the river can flow and we are the drops of rain that together fills the eternal river of life, that flows to the infinite sea of LOVE... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Faith based in fear enslaves the spirit to the unknown.

Faith based in LOVE frees the soul to Infinity... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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"To truly honour life we must sink our roots into what is holy and embrace the infinite life force while radiating love and light." ~ Micheal Teal

The true opposite of LOVE is not hate, nor is it even fear, it is oblivion; for if there is no LOVE, there is no life, there is no God, there is nothing... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.” ~ Sorin Cerin

God created all life from the coalescing of four indestructible, eternal, yet endlessly transmutable elements; energy, information, intention and LOVE. With our freewill we step into time and choose with our boundless curiosity from the infinite illusions that manifest before us as realities. 

In arrogance an unchangeable warrior is born and with death of ego, the humble, wanderer, teacher is freed; to LOVE ourselves is to LOVE God, to LOVE all life is to LOVE God; for God is the all, the experience of existence without beginning or end, it can be no other...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.

What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?”
~ Rumi

When I was an Angel I wanted for nothing, I pondered nothing other than to experience the sheer glory of my nearness to God, to the source of LOVE itself; such was the sublime paradise that was my existence. But as a man farther away from God, from LOVE, I gained a new perspective and appreciation for the vastness of Infinity, of LOVE, of the source of creation of all things. I now in every moment of life eternal want only to know all that is my creator more, so that I can become more perfected in the LOVE, she, he, it is; this is the blessing of being human as experienced by Angel.

As Angel I thought only to be the guide, the teacher of man, but as man I have learned that I too, even as Angel am forever a pupil before Infinity, that is God, that is LOVE...

Man and Angels are brothers and sisters, as are all beings, teaching one another on their endless odyssey through creation; for that which I once held in utter contempt, I now feel only boundless LOVE, for it is you, my brothers, my sisters in soul and flesh that gave wings to my Angelic heart.

The confession of an Angel's awakening...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.” ~ Deepak Chopra

When everyone feels like family and every place feels like home, you will have remembered the perfect, absolute, eternal connection that is LOVE... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” ~ Chief Seattle

Advice from a once arrogant Angel, now humbled, once fallen, now rising; Man, how blessed you are from initial creation, to have been given the gift of awareness of the preciousness of being alive, emphasized by the unknown after and my thanks, for without knowing you have shared that gift with me. Be careful, as I was not, to let your ego draw you too far from light, LOVE and perfection that is God, so that you begin to believe death permanent is real. It is and will always be your undoing.

Mortality is the false belief that life and LOVE are scarce and that we are apart from God, from Infinity itself.

Immortality is the knowing of truth that life and LOVE are abundant and that it is impossible to be separate from God, from Infinity...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.” ~ Carl Sagan

LOVE yourself through the war of your feelings of self hatred and you will find peace in the truth of perfection you are; we only feel imperfect because we lack the wisdom to understand in the most minute measure the mind of God.

I was listening to radio show on Angel's yesterday and a woman who keeps their company told this tale of Lucifer, she began by saying, 'that Lucifer is not the Devil (our devils and demons are of own imaginings) nor was he banished from Heaven, but he did indeed despise mans creation for he saw them as bringing imperfection to his paradise and in his rage he wished us undone. She then went on to say, 'that it was then a young Angel spoke, "imperfection cannot come from perfection".

Man like Lucifer are not imperfect, but both lack, as all do, the wisdom to understand the perfection that is God, that is Infinity, that is LOVE.

Maybe the reason Lucifer hated man so, was not because he perceived in us imperfection, but because he perceived in us his own lack of wisdom. We should all keep that in mind the next time we feel hatred for another; that the hate we feel is not for the other, but for our own lack of wisdom to know LOVE's perfection reflected in them.

Accept that you can never understand fully God's perfection, be at peace with that acceptance and then LOVE you will know, though still not comprehend.

This journey is the eternal discovering Infinity's perfection...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” ~ Rumi

Perfect LOVE transcends right and wrong, good and evil, it is the experience of choice without judgment or attachment to outcome; there is no being unworthy of the Sun's light or of BEING the perfect LOVE all is... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“You shall love your neighbour
With your crooked heart,

It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.” 
~ John Green

I share because I care, I care because I LOVE, I LOVE because I have remembered that LOVE is what we are; bodies engulfed by spirit, spirits engulfed by soul, souls engulfed by LOVE, LOVE that engulfs all... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“We confirm our reality by sharing.” ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Unwavering, unquestioning, unconditional, perfect LOVE for all life divine, the soul smiles; happiness eternal, joy profound, bliss sublime; a cell incubating, evolving in the womb of Infinity; an embryo ascending ever to one in God's creation, praise overflowing BE... 

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.” ~ Faith Baldwin

Adaption is to LOVE, as alteration is to fear...

In LOVE a being a adapts to be at one with and serve its chosen illusion; the tree adapted to the reality of this illusion. Its roots digging deep, tilling, nourishing, fastening the soil. Its trunk and branches buffering the fragile flower from the life giving storms. Its leaves cleansing and balancing the air and water so that all may breathe and drink. Its reward for adapting to the service of all life, is that it could grow in this illusion for so long as this illusion is.

In fear a being attempts in vain and vanity to control its chosen illusion by altering its surroundings believing falsely it can thwart the design of creation; man dug his roots and tilled the soil only to pollute and contaminate it. His body and arms offering no shelter only destruction and over consumption. His leaves, the tools alteration he has manifested, only foul the air and water so that none may breathe or drink. His reward for his alteration certain extinction, expulsion from this illusion, NOW, if he continues.

The tree nourished its gifts given within and flourishes; man destroys his gifts given without and withers.

Adaption cause to effect
Alteration effect to cause...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.” ~ H.G. Wells

When first the seeds of Divine LOVE's remembering are planted there is hope that all that is can be perfect, but as Divine LOVE's remembering grows and blooms, hope is replaced with the acceptance that all is that is, is perfect; Divine LOVE is perfect and because Divine LOVE is the only thing in all infinite creation that is in truth real, all is that, is perfect...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin 
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“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
~ Ellen Bass

There is no greater blessing than to be brought into an illusion, a play of physical life for the purpose of bringing the comfort of unconditional LOVE to those in last days of their bodies dying. Helping to guide and ease their distress, as their masquerade of flesh and control is transformed back to the true self that exists in the dimensions of spirit and soul. Freeing them to the light, to the one, allowing them to break the chains of surviving an existence of pain filled duality and suffering by comparison that by choice, have held them captive in the realm of matter; to be a caretaker of souls between the reality of LOVE and the fantasies of fear, is indeed perhaps the most glorious experience, the divinest of gifts, the highest honor to have bestowed upon our immortal being.

Remember there is no beginning or ending; death is birth and birth is death; the figure eight on its side unbroken; the story unending and ever unfolding.

Give praise for the LOVE we are blessed to share for all eternity and beyond...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind,
With tranquil restoration:—feelings, too,
Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love..."
~William Wordsworth

In fear we forget and fancy ourselves ungratefully the rulers of Creation; in LOVE we remember and humble ourselves giving thanks for the blessing, that is the divine responsibility to be in service of Life. And as we continue our ascension, our awareness expanding, we realize that all Life must serve all Life for all Creation to be.

As Kings and Queens we are but the temporary fools of lust, greed and fear, as servants we are eternal sages of joyful passion and the abundance that is LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” ~ Walt Whitman