LOVE's rapture is upon us, your name is being called; remember what you are, what ever you will BE, listen with your heart, feel with your soul, rise like the sun cresting the horizon peace on earth is dawning, see in love's light heaven was here, before you all along. Come join the dance of the forever unknowable, BE one with all creation or be one of those who chose to be the left behind, stranded, alone on your imagined island of fear; loved ones dear, still here, always near, laughing, singing, thriving, but to those who do not listen, who do not heed their truth calling, they will have appeared to have disappeared. LOVE's rapture is upon us, your name is being called, come join the dance, remember what ever and ever and ever you are or choose to be one of the left behind...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Embrace all your journeys challenges enthusiastically with LOVE and your challenges transform from unwanted dams stagnating life's waters, to rivers flowing freely to your endless rewards... yearn passionately, but linger not long on the banks of want, clinging to the rocks of despair and seemingly unfilled desire; life's rivers to and from the ocean of infinity are powerful and swift, if you are not one in LOVE, going with the current of each you drown before the paradise waiting always for you, is found.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

We have bled for fear....
Will we bleed for LOVE?

I have bled for fear
I will bleed for LOVE!

Yes for LOVE freely shall I bleed
Until my last cell red is drained
and my heart is still; this my soul's will
Victory in death's defeat

This is what it means to rage
for LOVE of life
Courage beyond bitterness
Ascension; rather than fester

In forgiveness, empathy and gratitude
We all rise

Yes, I shed my blood for LOVE
And not one drop did I waste...

For Maya Angelou born Marguerite Ann Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014:

A soul whose light for LOVE's fight shone so bright that even her tears were smiling screams of joyous rebellion; to walk in her shadow an endless summer's day.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.”
~ Maya Angelou

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Unconditional LOVE is a redundancy, as LOVE needs no preconditions of any kind, for LOVE by its very nature is pure, real, true, absolute, unconditional, infinite... Anything other is not LOVE!

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The most senselessly tragic aspect of the condition that human beings as a collective have chosen to place themselves in, is the conscious waste of a joyful, meaningful, blissful, happy experience of this our self manifested illusion. Because you see we as a collective are mirror images of our individual selves, in the sense that we spend most of our very short lives; first ignoring the brevity of the experience, then as we become aware of our fleeting time in the shell, our body we move to believing we can control or stop the inevitable decline and decay of our flesh and then finally most fall to desperation; their final hours spent clawing and grasping at any fantasy that would allow them to be in the same form of matter forever, the same mirror image reflected. Only in the last moments of breath do we wish to have been more, done more with these moments of mortal life in body brief. This is no different in how we as collective approach facing our ultimate demise, our complete extinction, but just like individual death of body, neither can our collective extinction be avoided; not by being afraid enough; forcing worship of an angry God to save us, not by war; death can't save us from death, nor can our technology; no matter how advanced out last the light of the most distant stars. Although, like the light from the stars, we too are energy ethereal and infinite, but like the light from stars we see, most are gone and their shine is their ghost. The consciousness that collected to make them gone on to gather information into new imagined form. But what makes our individual and collective experience in this "reality" so heartbreakingly tragic; is that we as collective, just as in most our individual experiences refuse to choose to change, to be happy and BE more in this ephemeral experience of mortality. And if how most of us live out our individual experiences is indication, example, then we will wait until the final days of our fate before wishing we had made that choice to BE more. The only question is will we recognize our final days and I can't help but wonder for us all aloud; are these days those of our last? Regardless, I made the choice BE more, to be LOVE and I pray with truth of all that I am, all that we are that we as a collective choose NOW the same. For the truth is, if each us choose for ourselves then our collective change from fear and misery to LOVE and happiness will instantly occur.

Live NOW rejoicing in LOVE, stop waiting in fear for tomorrow, too late, too soon to regret that you and we did not when it was always our choice to make.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.” ~ Ezra Pound

Fear is ego, LOVE is soul
Soul is friend, ego is foe
LOVE is real, fear is show
Ego is broken, soul is whole

LOVE is the truth of soul we know we believe

Fear is the lie of ego we believe we know...

Once one remembers that LOVE is the truth of what they are, every moment of eternity will be spent BEING more, better that truth, for they we will have remembered that is their purpose, their absolute and only reason for being...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.” ~ Deepak Chopra

From LOVE, seeds of life fall, like stardust raindrops, upon creation's fertile soil; all is alive in LOVE, LOVE is life, that is all...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." ~ Robert Frost

The remembering of the truth of unconditional LOVE gives one the space for ones' healing; unconditional forgiveness...

Unconditional forgiveness restores in one, ones' innate attribute of unconditional happiness...

Unconditional happiness makes one the master of all ones' moments rather than slave...

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

From an imagined hell fear rises, from truth of heaven forgotten LOVE falls, storm clouds gather and from the tempest born, no longer one, neither beast nor angel, came the perpetually befuddled and befuddling children of chosen bewilderment calling themselves, who-man; what a mesmerizing and spectacular circus have they crafted, tight wire walking, trapeze artist throwing, lions taming and out the big top, the side show, where each moment with baited breath waiting; is this the now when they fat lady sings the show is over? Only to go ever on and on and on... A standing ovation; who-man! who-man! who-man! Chants from around the infinite are heard; oh, what insane encore shall there be?

For we all want to runaway and place circus for a day, but it is only madmen, egoists and clowns who stay.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.” ~ Henri Matisse

Only LOVE reveals and allows us to sense and bear witness with immortal heart, the silent symphony and simple order, in what most now perceive and have manifested with mortal brain, as screaming cacophony and complex chaos...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered” ~ José Saramago

LOVE is all infinite creations operating system, our illusions of science and technology are but cheap imitations that ego cons us into believing are original ideas, complete understandings; that on any level we believe we have even the slightest clue as to how the mind of God/Infinity functions, even Einstein knew was the height of humanities' vanity, an errand of fools.

True genius is know that ever will you know not...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"We know nothing about [God, the world] at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. Possibly we shall know a little more than we do now. but the real nature of things, that we shall never know, never." ~ Albert Einstein

As a child Infinity embraced and allowed me to bear witness to endless wondrous unknown of which I am and all are innately apart; my imagination was awakened to all that is life.

As a man LOVE saved and enlightened me, giving me voice to share with all the truth of the oneness that is our omnipresent eternal connection; my heart became the conduit of conscious awareness.

To be happy in each moment of this endless journey of ascension, was the gift of both experiences combined.

I am perfect imperfection remembering my absolute perfection...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Absolute LOVE is without both condition and doubt

...LOVE is the force that aligns us with ours soul's purpose; our spiritual ascension

...LOVE gives us the faith that allows us peace, by giving the ability to accept and transcend any uncertainty

...LOVE makes every moment sacred...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." ~ Joseph Campbell

Life to death
Death to life...
Mountains crumble
Into seas tumble
Sand to shores
Trees growing
Green leaves in sun
Browning; seasons fading light
To dust, Earth they return
Suns shine brightly
Slowly dim
Holes darkness swallows
Blackness to light again

Years pass; billions
But not real, not Infinity
Creation endlessly imagined
God is the bard
LOVE her muse
Shakespeares and Rumis weep
The prose divine
Ever being written
Inked quills in mortal hands
On paper for moments dance
Words meaningless
Defining the indefinable
Describing the indescribable

Life to death
Death to life...
Mountains crumble
Sand to shores
God is the bard
LOVE her muse
Her inspired spirit
Sparks hearts to beat
Shakespeares and Rumis weep
Eternities lyrics penned
Song of LOVE sublime
Tears from eyes
Raindrops kissed by joy

From silent perfection
Illusions; the poem's of being
Are born

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

When we are LOVE without condition, we are happy with out condition; for happy like love is our true state of being, the true state of God. That is why there cannot be an angry, unhappy God; for God, the absolute infinite oneness of which we are apart exists beyond the duality of our illusions of fear and misery. Remember this and you will be... happy!

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"If you want to be happy, be." ~ Leo Tolstoy

Pride goeth before the fall, because pride will attempt to take you with it as it tumbles down...

Be aware the ego we birth it would rather kill us than vanish itself; in LOVE without condition, gifted then with humility we are freed from the self imagined bondage that is ego.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

The cause fear... the effects doubt, hate, greed, shortage, competition, war.

The cause LOVE.. the effects faith, empathy, generosity, abundance, collaboration, peace.

How one chooses to BE, their cause, effects how they experience the illusions of what is.

How we are choosing to BE, is clear from how we are experiencing what IS.

If we want a different effect and different perception of the experience of what IS, all we must do is change our cause from fear to LOVE.

It is in fact of science and truth of spirit, just that easy, just that simple... just a matter of cause and effect.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” ~ Herman Melville

“Situations seem to happen to people, but in reality, they unfold from deeper karmic causes. The universe unfolds to itself, bringing to bear any cause that needs to be included. Don’t take this process personally. The working out of cause and effect is eternal. You are part of this rising and falling that never ends, and only by riding the wave can you ensure that the waves don’t drown you. The ego takes everything personally, leaving no room for higher guidance or purpose. If you can, realize that a cosmic plan is unfolding and appreciate the incredibly woven tapestry for what it is, a design of unparalleled marvel.” ~ Deepak Chopra

In fear blinded, by blind rage for eons they have wounded, wounding all, wounding self most; in LOVE awakened, with kind calmness for eternity they shall be healed, healing all, healing self first...

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

Ultimately and without option LOVE is not a choice to be; for LOVE, God, Infinity, the incomprehensible three that are one, is absolutely, innately what we are. But blinded by the glistening fool's golds of the endless illusions we know as creation, our countless incarnations of mortal lives we refuse to see the truth of what IS; what IS was, what IS now, what IS eternally to BE... the treasure we seek, the soul, our true self, buried beneath the disguises of matter we don.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos." ~ D.H. Lawrence

Roses in eternal bloom
Watered by LOVE's gentle rain
Season by season
Moment by moment
Experience by experience
Shedding thorns of pain
Rose petal becoming lotus blossom
In creation's infinite pond float
Life ever anew revealed
Soul's reflections shimmer
Drowning to soar
Living to die
The curtain rises and falls
Garden womb stage
Stars twinkling spotlights
A play unending...

Give thanks for the gift of being!

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse." ~ Walt Whitman, "O Me! O Life!", Leaves of Grass

Fear is the force that drives the battle of ego

LOVE is the force that ends the war with soul

As you awaken to the truth that never was there a war to be battled at all...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." ~ Jean Anouilh

For LOVE to be all that LOVE is, one must only feel it, share it, be it; freely, regardless... for LOVE transcends all space and time, the illusions that take shape, as one's imagined experiences of matter; one must only, because LOVE is only; one is only LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." ~ Khalil Gibran

Restless, tortured wanderer, I mourn not this day of your passing, in truth I envy that you are free; freed to LOVE. I celebrate this anniversary of your departing, knowing in my soul that you are happy now, bound no longer by illusions of flesh and societal constraints that were an ever tightening noose around your beautiful throat. You are where one day I pray and strive each moment to reach, to be, at peace; tears of joy, not grief I weep for you my dearest friend, gone on to the heaven's bliss before me...

For Sarah, known to this world formerly as Soudabeh, May 9th, 2002

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." ~ Kahlil Gibran

No yesterday
No tomorrow
No lies
No regrets
No sorrow
No doubt

Only now
Only LOVE
Only truth
Only acceptance
Only joy
Only faith

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.” ~ William Shakespeare

I lay on the forest floor, a bed of leaves and needles beneath me, above me a canopy of redwoods blends into sky, the unamic scent of nourishing sea filling my nose, carried by the gentle breeze that caresses my flesh... I slip into silent solidarity with all, the singularity, that is God, that is LOVE, that is Infinity, the source of perfection; truth is not a word, it is the absolute silence, that defines the perfection.

Silence is not nothing, it is the experience of everything at once...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken
And yet so profound, and so loud, and so far,
That it thrills you and fills you in measures unbroken—
The unceasing song of the first morning star..."
~ Joaquin Miller

Fear of death is the chosen perversion of the experience of life, just as fear itself is the chosen perversion of the experience of LOVE; to BE in LOVE remember, to BE in fear forget?

Infinity cares naught our answer, our choice, our intent, for it is we with will free who choose always in our eternity how to BE; trembling in fear's false nightmare or rejoicing in LOVE's true dream?

Enlightenment, is awareness that is our choosing always of our story of how to BE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.” ~ Rob Bell

We begin our remembering of what we are, by first knowing what we are not.

I now know that I am not a short story of horror; a thankless word, a clinched bloody fist, a broken dying body.

I am remembering, as I allow myself to be in and experience each new moment to its fullest, that I am part of LOVE's never ending epic; a grateful breath, a heart open wide, a spirit eternal;

peaceful infinite silence, not angry briefest cacophony...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I won not my LOVE through finite conquest, but by losing myself in LOVE through infinite surrender.

That is why no poet, lyricist, philosopher ever has written of climbing into love, but always falling...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome." ~ Deepak Chopra

Fear is not the absence of LOVE, it is the absence of faith in LOVE; when belief in the illusions of flesh become more real than the truth of the Soul.

The truth of the Soul... it and LOVE's sole mission, singular purpose, is the passionate, intention to be whole, to be one with God/Infinity.

Life is what we experience as we go about completing the Soul's infinite mission, fulfilling the absolute destiny of LOVE's purpose.

The secret is that we are always whole and always one with God/Infinity, it is impossible to not be, we just forget.

If we would just remember, we would find where we left our keys...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

From ravenous caterpillar, to blissful butterfly
From fearful ego, to soulful angel
LOVE transforms; freeing the true self to flutter, fly, soar...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." ~ Joseph Campbell

Lungs that fill ecstatically with miracle of breath
Softest lips and tongue to taste sweetest kiss
Embraces by arms of life's ethereal bliss
For God's LOVE unconditional and divine
That blessed me for even one moment briefest
With the awakening feeling, the awareness
The experience of surrender to beauty untold
From the depth of my soul beyond measure;
I am grateful for sharing, with me, all of this
And forever I shall serve in her grace, at her pleasure...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." ~ Neale Donald Walsch