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