Apart, in fear, there is nothing we can do
Together, in LOVE, there is nothing we can’t BE…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Like seeking peace, there is no way to LOVE; like peace, LOVE is the way…
BE the way, BE peace, BE LOVE

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“God always takes the simplest way.” ~ Albert Einstein

The individual ego in fear experiences life as only lonely; while the individual soul in LOVE experiences life as only one.

That is why in our crowd of seven billion fearful clamoring Is, I could not feel more alone and isolated; while alone in nature’s quiet LOVE, I could not feel more whole and embraced.

Ego makes all experience absolutely vulgar:
LOVE makes all experience absolutely moral…

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

The more in LOVE you remember the truth of what you are, the more the veils, the barriers of the illusion fall and the less and less the machinations and manipulations of mankind’s narcissistic self delusions matter. Until you experience them as just shimmering nightmarish static of the not real, the not present intention, the absence of all but pathological feeling; white noise in the background of God’s symphony of rejoicing Angels…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LOVE, Infinity, God in their absolute oneness appear black as deepest space, not because they are not light, but because in fact they are all light, all color, all at once and we like the Sun, the moon, the stars are but the tiniest shards of their omnipresent, eternal radiance…

Live bright;
LOVE brighter…
Shine!

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“If we would but abandon ourselves entirely to to our God-given native luminosity; our inherited reflex to shine love & light—as a reflection of the divine—would be impossible to ignore.” ~ LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

Clear waters running
The stream carries dreams
Forward and back
To the ocean of LOVE
The infinite source
The endless destination
An uncreated creator
Creating an uncreated creation
Abstract is the masterpiece
Dali’s eyes melt as he weeps
Beauty too painful to behold
LOVE the price for the soul sold
I rest now, in peace
But not dead; to blissful slumber returned
The dream is not the illusion
And the illusion not the dream
I laid me down and prayed
LOVE, my Lord my soul to keep

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” ~ Marsha Norman

LOVE is insatiable, fiercely ravenous;
endlessly, silently, without moving, devouring all creation,
until it is Infinity full and all is whole, until it is done and all is one…
LOVE I nourish, as LOVE nourishes I

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” ~ Mother Teresa

If there is any system or thing that by its very nature, its state of being, is in a perpetual state of war and dysfunction with itself and by extension life’s process, continuing to exist only through constant manipulation, subversion and coercion. Rationalizing that it callously destroys, gluttonously consumes, is morally and consciously bankrupt “an enemy of LOVE” for the greater good; then not only should it not continue, it by its own acts of mad desperation ensures its own demise and ultimately extinction.

What makes mankind unique and confounding, is that we have the choice to have now and have had before a different nature, but we seem instead this moment conveniently comfortable, numbly resigned, to choose the nature of those systems and things that cannot be; a glitch, an anomaly that the laws of nature’s order, the rules of cause and effect must correct, for balance, purpose and process to be maintained. And it will always be maintained.

This is an absolute in any illusion of time and matter one chooses to manifest… to be too long an enemy of LOVE is suicide.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”
~ G.K. Chesterton

War is the illusion we imagined to protect ourselves from death

LOVE is the truth we remember that death is the illusion

War is to lust, a false mortal connection to life;
as LOVE is to the Soul’s intimacy, the true eternal oneness with all living, breathing, flowing creation…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.” ~ John O’Donohue

Peace is not being just not violent, not at war.

Peace is having unconditional LOVE for yourself and all that is, both known and unknown.

Peace is the place of sublime bliss, comfort and empathy you find and share at the center of the stillness and the silence.

Peace is not fearing, but falling in LOVE with the infinite mystery…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love.Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing. from To Have or to Be?
~ Erich Fromm