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

Heaven is experiencing life, as the joy of spirit, the peace of soul, the LOVE we are; all we must do to unlock the gates of pearl and BE… is remember without doubt.

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

Lonely star sparkling ever bright,
High against black canvas of endless night
Twinkling your stardust tears
The light you shed never disappears
Know that you are not alone;
Your LOVE light beaming guides me home
Sharing the divine, shining grace
Eternal lovers roaming time and space…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul” ~ Victor Hugo

It will and has never come our return to paradise through chaotic, pointless doings, scurrying about cleaning up haphazardly the messes we’ve made, attempting to fix randomly all that we have broken. The only way we can return to and restore the perfect garden we chose to leave, is by changing our way of being; stop doing in fear, selfishly accomplishing nothing and start BEING, sharing in the LOVE, the foundation of everything.

Doing without first deciding what you are meant to BE, is to breathe in air that has no oxygen and other exercises in futility.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.” ~ D.H. Lawrence

LOVE like God and Infinity, is both space-less and timeless, but also like God and Infinity is all that spacetime is and isn’t.

LOVE, God, Infinity is the divine, sublime, holiest trinity; the three that are one, the one that is zero, the one that is without beginning or ending, the one that is beyond definition or comprehension, the one that can never be found, but is always surrounds, the one that we are and are not.

Surrender, accept, BE; the one that is all that can never be known, the one that is eternally our destiny.

Our choice is our intention, our intention is our manifestation; choose wisely, choose LOVE, just LOVE…

The heart, our body’s connection to the soul, is a furnace fueled by LOVE whose heat is life’s essence.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.” ~ Theodor Reik