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