Is there one among us who would not give all their gold, for a moment, in their arms, their loved ones one last chance to hold?

Now ask yourself; Of what does life's true worth consist? Of what it is the value LOVE that no being can long resist?

The answers for me are these...

Life's true and only worth; is the LOVE given and LOVE returned.

And love's value is beyond measure of any paper, stone or metal, hoarded treasure...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"When we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice, or willful misrepresentation. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of merrymaking, not sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest disturbances take possession of the soul." ~ Epicurus 341 B.C.-270 B.C.

Love Loneliners...

Fear is to denial, complication and quagmire, as LOVE is to acceptance, simplicity solution...

LOVE; Life Overcoming Vanity to Evolve...

Ascension is remembering in every moment to LOVE more and fear less...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let go your finite expectations of what LOVE and life should be and surrender to the infinite experience of what LOVE and life is; give up your illusions of control and allow yourself to freely flow, to soar; for we are like baby birds pecking our way out, bit by bit, cracking through our shell of fear, so that we may one day emerge, to fly free on wings of our eternal bliss, through the endless skies of LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39)” ~ Ravi Ravindra

If ever LOVE is to rule the day, the challenge of our addiction to the temptations of matter must be recognized and conquered; for it is the ego centered delusional nature of this relationship to the fantasy of flesh and stone that keep us from being the truth of the spirit and Soul...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice.... It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel. ~Jim Carrey

In LOVE life is a shared experience of being ONE with all, this is the experience of the soul. Without LOVE, life is a selfish experience of being apart from all, this is the experience of the ego.

ME is not ME, I is not I; I and ME are WE and WE are ONE with INFINITY that is the absolute true truth of our BEING in LOVE...

But the ONE is not a number, but the quantity of all INFINITY; therefore beyond any measure of space, time, energy, matter, it is unformed data, from which intention manifests experiences of infinite realities, it is where numbers circle back on themselves, meeting at a point that is neither negative nor positive, but fractions endlessly dissolving to POINT ZERO; the source of all LOVE's imaginings, the birth place of consciousness. Imagine for LOVE and it will BE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.” ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Addicts warned of the dire consequences of their continued abuse, have two choices; continue on with the behavior that is harming them, their loved ones and their tribe by extension or find their purpose, their reason for life, embracing it with all their heart and soul. If the former is chosen most likely the addict will cease being to this experience of life, but if the latter they choose, their doors of perception will be swung wide and their intention for being will become clear.

We as a species stand at that crossroad of addict choices and we have been warned; now it is up to us to choose to serve our purpose in life's process or be no more in this experience. This is not a judgement of right or wrong, just an observation, a statement of truth based mankind's junkie like behavior both present and historical.

LOVE is the only fix I need, what say you my fellow tribe called man; a round on me?

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today." ~ Os Guinness

The albatross could never fly free the skies and seas if trapped behind bars of cage of its own making; nor can we ascend without restraint to love's infinite potential while feeling real, remaining prisoners of this illusion of matter we are shaping.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” ~ Voltaire

I would rather a single moment, happy, no matter how brief, having borne witness to the transcendent beauty of LOVE and then be no more self, returning to absolute oneness Infinity; than be forever blind, suffering, an immortal ego, vainly spending all eternity in the grotesque ugliness of fear.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

LOVE is not the fleeting ecstasy of orgasm, nor is LOVE the empty misery of the moment after climax; LOVE is the feeling of bliss you pray you could stay cocooned in forever that comes before; both feelings of ecstasy and misery are illusions cast by the body while standing in love's shadow, bliss is our Soul's truth that lies at love's core...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence." ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

LOVE is the one and only law of Infinity and the law of LOVE is incontrovertible and undeniable; without LOVE there would be no other laws, not the laws physics, not laws of nature and most certainly not the laws of man; for without LOVE there would be nothing at all, no space above or Earth below, no time, no you, no me, not even fear; such is the absolute nature of the law of LOVE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

To believe that LOVE is how we need to be, is not idealistic, to the contrary it is realistic. Because LOVE is the only way to bring the peace and sustainability we all say we desire, as history has shown that by all counts and measures fear has and will not. So then we must LOVE for the simplest reason of all; it is what works toward our stated goals.

LOVE it just makes good and common sense and common sense is mother of wisdom; LOVE is the sunny day we say we seek, while is fear is the rain we won't come out of...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.” ~ Euripides

To be happiness eternal one must fly high the white flag above their fortress of fear and surrender to the irresistible force that is LOVE infinite.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"I will surrender. The power is too great to comprehend, for love always triumphs! So it is to you I surrender...and its truth shall be forever." ~ Rasa

Fear activates the predator in us by convincing us we're starving, LOVE inspires the altruist us by awakening us our abundance.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Abundance ~ An endless supply of water, trees heavily laden with fruit, a sun that shines every day, seasons in their never-ending cycle, a constant supply of air, an infinite wellspring of love, so many people to share with, an eternal cascade of imagination and creativity, unlimited lessons and growth, much valuable work to do, limitless potential for expanding and opening our hearts, unending forests to wander, evermore books to read and write, a vast mind of thoughts to explore, overflowing goodness, exponential wonder, overwhelming mercy, ~ a copious abundance of abundance to ponder." ~ Jinjee and Storm Talifero

Some say that we seek truth from the inside out, others that our body exists in our soul and not our soul in our body, thus making our seeking from the outside in, but I feel what all sages are telling us is that we must seek absolute truth beyond the definitions of this or any illusion we choose to experience. And since that absolute truth is LOVE, it knows not within or without, yesterday or tomorrow, as love's truth, like LOVE itself exists in no space, no time, for love's home is Infinity; ever beyond our comprehension.

Therefore wherever Infinity exists LOVE is found and there nowhere, no-when that Infinity does not exist, so it follows there is nowhere no-when that LOVE is not found. Wouldn't then the truth of our seeking be that we need not seek love's truth at all, as LOVE is one with all that is, just as we are in truth one with all that is?

LOVE is here always waiting, timelessly patient, for our conscious intention and attention, then like an old friend we hear LOVE say; what took you so long this time? And we are once more comforted, by the remembering of love's embrace, as to a Mother's eternal bosom, that was there, holding us close, nurturing us all along...

Infinity/God/LOVE is the ocean
Our Soul is an infinite cup in that ocean of Infinity
We in body are an infinite drop in the cup of infinite Soul...

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

Once one transcends fear of dying and death, LOVE of living and life are infinitely enhanced, not by loss of imagined mortality diminished.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity.
Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves.
Fear of death is fear of the Unknown.
Realize the Wonder, the Eternal Unknowability of the Totality of Existence, and fear of death is transcended.
If happiness or freedom depends on the Answer to the Question, then there can be no happiness or freedom.
The Question cannot be satisfactorily or finally Answered.
For one who abides at Infinity, happy and free, at ease with his Ultimate Ignorance, the Question and the Answer are equally unnecessary.
What began will come to an end.
What is Wonderful is not threatened.
The Process of the Totality of Existence is Transcendental and Eternal.
Only a fraction of the Whole can pass away in any moment, since only a fraction of the Whole appears in any moment.
Therefore, the Heart Itself is always already Full of Wonder and Love.
"I" is the body-mind, the fraction of the Whole that is now appearing and will soon disappear.
"I" must be surrendered to the Heart, to the Whole, which is Infinity, Wonder, and Love.” ~ Adi Da Samraj, The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace: The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health

LOVE, what we are, should always have been our first choice, but as we have played so long the role of being what we are not, the LOVE we eternally are, is now our last resort, if continued existence in this illusion, is as we say say it is, our want, our desire, our intention.

I share these daily understandings with you not in attempt to make you afraid that the end is near, but to make you look honestly at the choices our species has made and where these choices have led us from a historical perspective, as juxtaposed to where we say we want to be today and where we hope to get to tomorrow. Because the truth is this; if as we say we want a peaceful, sustainable and prosperous future for all? Then I can tell you without a doubt that continuing on the way we are going we will not get us to were we say we want to be. I am certain of this not because I can see the future, but because we have been doing the same thing time and again millenniums on end. leading to the same outcome each time; societal collapse of every system at every level.The difference this time being, is there is no more room for error, due to our vast increase in population, the exponentially increasing decline in the health of our environment and the rapidly diminishing pool of the basic resources we all need to survive and to thrive. So you see it's not about right or wrong, good or evil, its about what is workable based on what we as collective are praying to achieve.

Remember prayers only work if there is action behind them... WE ARE JUST LOVE, SO BE IT!!!

BEING LOVE = COMMON SENSE

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Fear is the law of man that unconsciously, unintentionally causes complex chaotic challenges.

LOVE is the law of Infinity that consciously, intentionally effects simple sublime solutions...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“[Pertaining to The Law of Free Will and Karma]: Disputing traditional cause and effect karmic doctrine, Kuan Yin maintains that it is the accumulated beliefs from parallel realities creating “made-up stories” about oneself and, thus, reality. Because of this quantum factor, we have absolute Free Will to attract optimum realities from infinite, simultaneous Evolutionary Potentials. Thus, according to Kuan Yin, where and how skillfully one focuses their intention and attention can determine an outcome.” ~ Hope Bradford, Beneficial Law of Attraction: The Manifestation Teachings (Kuan Yin Law of Attraction Techniques Based on Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of

LOVE is the secret to true beauty, for the more any being LOVES the more beautiful that being becomes; so let all beings LOVE until there is no being more beautiful than the next. Inspired to LOVE by vanity; he thinks with a wink.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." ~ Khalil Gibran

One hundred thirty three million innocent ones we bring into this world every year, it is for them, for their tomorrows, if not for us and ours that we must NOW choose LOVE over fear; it is our undeniable, unquestionable, indisputable, irrefutable, unshirkable duty and responsibility as their elders, their creators; it is what God chose for us, though we up until this moment in time have chosen something almost entirely different.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." ~ George Bernard Shaw

It is fear that allowed our savage, ignorant, flesh caged beast to survive, it will be LOVE that will allow our peaceful, enlightened, soul freed angel to thrive...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.” ~ Meister Eckhart

Any faith whose source is not LOVE, is not real faith, but fear based, guilt ridden lie of religious dogma that leads not to the truth of soul's eternal happiness, our infinite connection, but to the illusion of separation and spiritual dead ends...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Fear knocked at the door and faith answered. No one was there." ~ Old English Proverb

Dark beautiful darkness embraces, steaming heat, the mother's womb recreated, the most sacred place; sweat flows, warm salty streams offerings to the earth, prayers to the Great Spirit rise in plumes of sage and tobacco infused smoke; stories of loss and healing shared, cancer, suicide, addiction; steaming heat hotter, sweat poring, hot saline rivers run, hallowed songs, sacramental, to mother give thanks, to father give grace, to all the ancestors blessings; the Great Spirit smiles on her children, prayers answered, ritual eternal, timeless, ancient honored; sacred pipe passed, inhaled the soul's purest intention, exhaled miracles; gifts from the Great Spirit, corn, nuts, cool sweet blackberries passed, to nourish the flesh; clockwise we crawl, females, White Buffalo Woman each on hands and knees move first to light, we emerge from the womb, purified, spirit filled, reborn to the world of man; the lesson carried LOVE, each moment cherish, divine, holy; soaked, exhausted to the core, eager to be cleansed once more; praise be, praise be, the Good Red Road ahead, clear for this second in time...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.” ~ C.S. Lewis

LOVE is always here, always near, begging silently; listen, feel me, let me be your courage, let me heal your fear ravaged heart and give back spark of life to the dying embers of your unremembered spirit. Rise Phoenix rise, from the ashes of your imminent demise, I am your wings; without words LOVE sings...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

My greatest happiness is helping you find your greatest happiness.

My greatest LOVE is helping you to remember that you are greatest LOVE.

I am selfishly emphatic, for like the bee buzzing, flitting, fluttering flower to flower kissing each one to bloom, I too make my life's honey from the fruit of your prosper, but so too I wilt and wither with you, as your petals fall.

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 painter paints, the poet proses, the maestro composes not out of fear, but out of need, driven by LOVE and all space and time as well was created out of not fear, but need driven by LOVE; LOVE is the muse of that drives both man to manifest his never ending illusions and God to mold infinite formless nothing, into countless stars...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you” ~ Saint Bartholomew

LOVE gives sight beyond fear distorted flesh that disguises the spirit in ego; all I see is the ever present beauty that is our eternal soul, our true divine angelic splendor, not our mask of vane demonic creature.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” ~ Confucius

In my hand I hold a perfect grain of sand and before me rising to the heavens is a glorious mountain, whose peak I cannot see; the pebble is what I now know of LOVE's truth, the mountain is the infinite truth of LOVE I will climb joyously ever to discover, but whose summit I shall never reach; I forgive, I give thanks, I raise my soul's voice singing silent praise; before the mountain's eternal magnificence I stand in rapt awe and once more I am humbled. My prayers of LOVE now answered; my heart is filled with gentle breath of life, as I climb up and up and up humbly collecting grains of sand...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

A true master of LOVE, a teacher of life's truths, loves all her students; the broken and troubled ones most, and for them her lessons must be often both tough, as well as kind...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." ~ William Arthur Ward

In LOVE we experience resurrection, ascension and in fear we conjure perpetual damnation.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking." ~ Deepak Chopra