The more deeply and completely he immersed himself in LOVE, the more he saw and felt the physical illusion with all its rules and laws, as an impediment to the absolute experience of LOVE, to which he longed so desperately to return.

But then maybe it was not so much the physical experience he was having that was the impediment, as it was his experience in humanities hypocrisy?

For how could any being say they LOVE and cherish life and then continue to survive it in fear, abusing it, treating it with such utter disdain and contempt.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.” ~ Bertrand Russell

We need not crucify ourselves a moment longer in fear of our imagined sins of the flesh, to be punished or rewarded after death; we need only remember NOW that we are LOVE and the truth of our eternal being is the perfection of our immortal soul; and with that remembrance, we too shall rise, resurrected; for we are not just the children, sons and daughters of God, but pieces of God combining to make all that is infinite creation. But know too that the true nature of our boundless being is faceless, space-less, timeless, ego-less experience...

The knowing of the absolute nature of LOVE and Infinity had for him broken the spell cast by not just this illusion, but all illusions. His only question now; why stay? As he knew he was not real.

Was it because he is truly needed, to help others awake to this knowing or was his feeling of being essential merely another slight of the mind, a trick of the head performed by his ego?

Then he thought; what if others didn't want to awake? What if they were having exactly the experience they wanted to have, who was he to shake them into unwanted awareness? 

In his silent, still wanderings faraway from light of day, of LOVE is all he dreams and as each new dawn slowly breaks he prays the night stays forever late, for it is in the dark where quiet finds peace, his troubled spirit finds release from ego; the more he dies to the experience of fear and flesh, the more alive he becomes in the truth of LOVE and soul, closer, ever closer to no more he, returning to being the infinite WE...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Suddenly he awoke with the knowing that he was a servant of life's eternal process whether he thought he was or not, as such is the absolute perfection that is LOVE; it was with that realization of the true nature of the sublime divine design of creation, that he understood how truly small he had been dreaming...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.” ~ Henry David Thoreau 

Came a voice that was his, but not...

You may feel some discomfort, but do not be frightened as you transition from being in body trapped in the shadow of fear you are not, to spirit freed in the light of LOVE you are, though the other side of your shift in states you cannot see.

Remember that as the snake sheds and molts it's old dead skin that it's new skin alive beneath may be released or as the caterpillar transforming from earthbound worm to heaven floating butterfly too feel some discomfort and for a moment as they pass from what they were to what they are, become blind as well.

The young soldier stood before the shards of broken glass, that cluttered battlefield ruin, starring, in them seeing the illusion of being that is both he and his reflection and it came to him; that within the heart of every man in human body form is a beast driven by the lie of fear raging always to war, feasting on the energy of his soul and an angel knowing the truth of LOVE longing ever to soar, nourishing the true nature of his spirit; in that moment he remembered freely he must fly. Laying down his arms he walked in divine grace from the life stained field of combat vowing never to return again... no never more, no never more, kill for you I won't, die for you I will; he whispered over and over from his state of newly rediscovered bliss.

Absolute, unconditional LOVE is the only path to peace, to freedom of being...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." ~ Joseph Campbell

LOVE blossomed and flourished in the garden of his eternal soul where the seeds of forgiveness, humility and gratitude had been sown...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.” ~ Henri J.M. Henri Nouwen 

We stand timidly at edge of our shift in conscious dipping one toe beyond the edge of shadow of our fear, into the unknown that it is LOVE, but like little kids frightened to take the bandage off an old wound, we peel it back little by little tearing one hair out at a time, its excruciating for us all and worse than the pain is the anticipation, the expectation of the pain; we must now be like big boys and girls and rip the bandage off in one fell swoop so that the light of LOVE may be let in to finish the healing of our self-inflicted wounds it has already begun; it will only hurt a little while longer, then the joy of our experience as healthy more evolved loving beings will begin... ouch, all better now.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“YOU are becoming a new species. The vibrations in and around you are increasing in speed. YOU are all adjusting to these higher dimensional energies (consciously and unconsciously). Without awareness of this process, you may feel lost, overwhelmed, anxious and hopeless. WITH A SHIFT OF CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU CAN THRIVE AS WELL AS CREATE YOUR FUTURE.” ~ Elaine Seiler, Your Multi-Dimensional Workbook: Exercises for Energetic Awakening

The rain does not fear or complain knowing that as it falls from the sky it will land upon the earth and dry, evaporating to rise once more to the blue to form clouds anew; then why should I be sad that I am born and will one day die, as such is the way of nature's cycles, the way of life's process; have faith in LOVE know that you too will rise anew...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is connected to a larger cycle which awaits our return. It is all just like breathing. Remove the fear and judgement to recognize the same pattern as a principle everywhere.” ~ Franklin Gillette

Though the storm that raged around him his entire life had neither calmed, been quelled, nor ceased he had at last accepted fully what he had always known that it was in the embrace of Infinity, wrapped in the arms of LOVE that he would remember his truth, his bliss, his peace...
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.

Fear competes, depletes, destroys
LOVE collaborates, replenishes, renews

Put simply; fear takes away, LOVE provides

If a species heeds fears Siren's scream against LOVE's unity, the innate oneness that species is doomed to rapid self-annihilation

LOVE abhors ownership, that is why it so frightens the rulers of our culture of greed, so brainwash the masses against LOVE's true potential they must

Fear is the foundation of man's unsustainable delusion, while LOVE is the foundation of Infinity's, Creation's, God's sustainable infinite illusion

Our purpose for being, any beings purpose for being is simple, it is to serve and experience the divine joy of LOVE's life sustaining destiny...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them.

At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”

~ Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

Once we come to experience BEING only as LOVE, the illusion of time will disappear, as when every moment is LOVE no moment will be too long or too short; for if LOVE is ever the now, that moment you will never want to leave, as no longer will there be need to contemplate and regret the past or dream and pray of a better morrow; for that is the perfection that is the truth of LOVE BEING, being fully remembered...

Fear is the imagined expectation of what LOVE is, that keeps us from having the experience of LOVE's incomprehensible grandeur...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)” ~ Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

I gladly give up the sweetest tastes of flesh, as all I have indulged in and with gluttony savored and whether they are honeyed lips or candied treat, they must be always followed by an equal dose of bitter you must swallow, in the form of hardened fist or fatal disease, give me please instead the state of LOVE's peace that lies and is the truth between; yes, that is how I choose in still, silent, humility for eternity to be...

I am all I am because I think I am, but I am LOVE not because I think I LOVE or because LOVE needs a me to LOVE or be loved, I am LOVE because without or with a me thinking I am, LOVE is all that is, infinitely, Infinity...

Though the LOVE there would always be, the eyes are dry, no more tears left to shed; why cry when it is your LOVE's willful and repeating choice to slit their own throat and make their own bed?

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

The most heroic soldier, the wisest warrior is the one who awakes, standing face to face, eye to eye before his sworn, lifelong enemy, lays down his arms and says to his once foe, whom he sees now as brother; against you, anyone or anything I vow I shall war no more, but LOVE you and all that is, forever endeavor I will...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace." ~ Charles Sumner

Let not the light of the LOVE you are be obscured by the shadow fear you are not; let yourself be both humbled and exalted, as every breath of life, every moment of being, is divine, sacred, holy; know that you are God sharing both the experience of the reality of what God is and the illusion of what God is not...

We seek to create virtual realities and insert memories of experiences, illusions manifesting illusions within the illusion to manifest the illusion of a bliss we so desperately desire, the bliss of LOVE that is the truth of God, the reality of the oneness, the perfection that exists always, just waiting to be once again remembered...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations." ~ David Icke

LOVE is the vibrational frequency of life, of the boundless creative consciousness that is Infinity, rainbows of endless information leaping from soul to soul, divine cosmic synapses firing eternally, connecting in sublime divine awareness, the incomprehensible mind God; tune in to LOVE, you don't know what you are missing...
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

LOVE's bliss washes over you like the mist of a gentle morning dew, as the first rays of dawn's light pierce the fog rolling over the green hills of the new moments promise...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Pull love closely around you
and snuggle into its bliss.” ~ Hemat Malak, Your Angels Called and Left a Message: Divine Messages to Guide You to Happiness

You must go all in for LOVE or for LOVE you must not go in at all, as LOVE attempted with half measures and halfheartedness is not LOVE and therefore will not survive, doomed is such un-LOVE to failure; that is why for LOVE you must go all in, for if you are not all in for LOVE, you are not in for LOVE at all...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."

(Sonnet 116)”
~ William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

LOVE has gifted me the acceptance that I am but a cooled speck of tiniest stardust, a single atom of carbon blown by the incomprehensible cosmic forces of space and time, an eternal admiring witness bearer to all that is sublime creation, nothing less and how could or would I want for anything more; perfect serenity is the divine blessing of the acceptance of LOVE; I pray a prayer of all LOVE to all that all may wake, remember and accept LOVE is all, that all may again LOVE all...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

All seems beautiful to me.

Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.”
~ Walt Whitman

Fear's storm clouds gathered long ago, hanging oppressive for eons over the collective consciousness of humanity, the worse part is not the storm ferocious and terrifying though it may be, it is the waiting for the clouds to burst and LOVE's rain to fall washing all clean, so that they may at long, long last begin again...
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.” ~ Euripides

I suffer not because I suffer my beloved, for I have remembered suffering is not real that happiness and joy are ours to choose. Nay, I suffer because for you my LOVE suffering is real; so great is my LOVE for you that I suffer for your suffering...
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.” ~ William Faulkner

Everyday as I listen to news reports from the around the world and ponder from a far off perspective our "known" collective history, I think how would a more highly evolved being summarize our collective experience and it came to me in these simple words; They failed and they continue to fail...

As no matter the philosophy, political structure, culture, religion, race, gender, sexual orientation we have failed and continue to fail and not only do we continue to fail, but we continue to fail in almost exactly the same way for exactly the reasons.

To date none of us has moved beyond our fear based wants that manifest again and again as greed, lust, slavery, environmental destruction, gluttony of every conceivable form; the new mad kings replace the old mad kings, each mad king still ruling arrogantly, blindly serving only themselves. And the few who have risen above, have either been killed, had genocide committed upon them or have been marginalized to the point that their ways and their teachings are lost or lose all meaning.

We have convinced ourselves throughout time that agricultural, industrial, technological advancement is progress, evolution it is not.

There is one way and only one way to transcend our ignorant vain decadence and that is to commit ourselves to LOVE, to PEACE, to UNITY with ALL LIFE. This is not new thinking this the thinking of our great masters from Buddha and Jesus to Einstein and Martin Luther King, as well as the way of the indigenous peoples from all around Mother Earth, whose cultures have become barely footnote in our legends written by the "victors".

Yes I am pretty sure that the highly evolved beings will write as our epitaph in their books of wisdom simply this; Humanity - a species who failed simply because they refused to embrace fully the simple truth of LOVE.

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Its not the love you make. It's the love you give.” ~ Nikola Tesla

"Universal Peace, assuming it to be in the fullest sense realizable, might not require eons for its accomplishment, however probable this may appear, judging from the imperceptibly slow growth of all great reformatory ideas of the past. ... Our accepted estimates of the duration of natural metamorphoses, or changes in general, have been thrown in doubt of late. The very foundations of science have been shaken." ~ Nikola Tesla

LOVE is the lighthouse, a beacon of faith for our intentionally lost souls, while sailing board this ship named Fools, guiding us safely home through this savage tempest that is this experience in human flesh...
just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t." ~ Blaise Pascal

For too many "civilizations" and generations has humanity crucified itself, war after war after war, leaving now gaping wounds in our collective body bleeding without control; today the old ways of man must die, so that we may resurrect, our slate washed clean, forgiven from our sins against ourselves and life itself; that we may at long last, this moment ascend, reborn, remade, reincarnated, re-membered, one forever in LOVE; for if we as a species do not make a decision that we want to be something that is life sustaining, the whatever you or I decided to be or do is of little consequence to the future of this experience...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all." ~ Paul Hawken

LOVE is the infinite collective consciousness' humbling remembrance of our shared eternal experience of being alive that connects all to all; fear is the ego's madness infecting expectation of that experience that separates one from that absolute, perfect truth; with each exhale life is gifted with each inhale the gift of life received, thus completing creation's endless cycle of thank you and you are welcome; God creating us, us creating God...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God." ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar

Where LOVE's light shines the garden of life flourishes
Where the shadow of fear is cast the garden of life wilts
Mankind how fares your garden; asks the Angel of light, life and LOVE...

LOVE is not the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, LOVE is the rainbow and we and the rainbow are one; the rainbow reminds us that the treasure we seek lies not at our journeys end, but rather it is in the eternal journey itself and the infinite experiences we share along the way that are our treasures to treasure...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.” ~ Paulo Coelho

The mold from which my experience human had cast me is forever shattered; sculpted anew I am again, but this time by vision not of fearful man; formed now of the consciousness of LOVE as we are/I am meant to BE for eternity...

When you fall in LOVE with, instead in fear of the infinite unknown, eternity is experienced as permanent Christmas or at least Christmas as it was intended to be experienced; a festival of peace, a celebration of life...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." ~ Joseph Campbell

LOVE is by its true, purest nature both unconditional and uncompromisable.

So if you ask me to me meet you half way between LOVE and fear, I cannot; for anything that is not all LOVE, for me now, is not LOVE at all.

The more I am ask to compromise on my commitment to LOVE the more resolute my commitment to LOVE becomes...

just LOVE...
Kip Baldwin
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“Let today be the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting, achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you are committed to being the change you wish to see and living the life you wish to live.” ~ Steve Maraboli