To cringe from death, is to cringe from life
To embrace death, is to embrace life
To forget LOVE, is to forget to be
To remember LOVE, is remember to BE

I don’t want to LOVE you, I must LOVE you, I have to LOVE you, I need to LOVE you; for if I do not truly LOVE you, I do not truly LOVE me and if do not truly LOVE me, I cannot, could not and will not BE.

Life is LOVE and death is part of life; LOVE all life, LOVE is all life…

LOVE like air is ubiquitous and both though neither can you see, feel, touch or taste; neither without, would you or could you be.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.” ~ Khalil Gibran

LOVE exalts the meek, humbles the vain and ultimately LOVE restores peace, balance, unity, as it reminds each that no matter the facade worn to the masquerade of their experience, all is infinitely, eternally, absolutely, one.

Remember Angels have wings to fly to the light, the source, LOVE; not away. Away, apart, far from LOVE, even Angels lose their wings and fall.

I pray fall thee Angels no farther, be lifted again on spirit wings, Heaven beacons you home.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” ~ Euripides

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” ~ Rumi

Churches, temples, mosques, synagogues turned houses of horror and war. Brainwashing the masses, transforming the sons and daughters of God’s eternal LOVE into spiritless disciples worshiping at altars of fear, but God is waiting and watching, infinitely patient. She knows the final outcome never changes, eventually we will again remember and wake from the long cold night cast by fear’s illusion; always dawn breaks and LOVE’s truth is revealed in the light.

It wasn’t long ago that we had world leaders with the wisdom and courage to utter out loud that lasting peace is a necessary condition for humanities survival; they even spoke of infinite possibilities, universal love of all and our innate oneness. Those leaders spoke truth and yet the mongers of fear and convenience convinced the collective to choose lie; they/we chose wrong.

That’s the bad news; the good news is truth is waiting, we still have a chance to choose again.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I pray for there to be a generation that follows mine, that for them peace and LOVE are the rule; and war and fear are but distant, far flung memories of what once was, but never should have been.

You must LOVE and care for all others for the innate and eternal truth of what they are, but you need not feel ashamed or guilty for not caring about the lie of fear they choose to be. 

You can LOVE infinitely, but you can only care to extent the other cares for themselves. 

I am forever attached to you, but not to the not you….

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” ~ Margaret Mead

Time when perceived through the pinhole of fear feels like quicksand, stealing moments, swallowing whole nows, until below the surface we slip and life is gone.

Time when experienced through LOVE’s kaleidoscope becomes a never-ending beach where in each grain of sand is a choice from infinite possibilities and life is eternal.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity” ` Henry David Thoreau

Remembering the truth of LOVE in a world whose foundation is fear, is like finding sobriety in a liquor store filled with alcoholics where drinking is encouraged. For the sober man this is a torment beyond imagining, not because of being surrounded by the temptation to become drunk once more; the sober man remembers well the torture of being the alcoholic, living the lie, greeted by a red bloated face in the mirror, convincing yourself through the pain that you’re having a good time, the voice saying; just get me through until the bliss of the next drink, the next fix, it will all be fine. No, it is because watching them suffer, surviving in the junkies lie, breaks the sober man’s heart and is a constant reminder that he would rather die than be the drunk again and live the lie. The sober man’s torment is though try as he might he cannot make the alcoholics in the store remember the joy of a life without being drunk, when the reality they have created around them is their constant enabler and he realizes that he is but a stranger in a sea of lushes drowning.

Man is a glutton at a twenty four hour, all you can eat buffet of fear and it seems he will eat till he bursts.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Stick figure children with bellies bloated on beds of diseased dirt; in pockets for quarters we reach, the crocodile tears stream.

Animals spirits crushed, broken bleeding bodies on our television screens; check books pen in hand, we pretend someone else’s bad dream.

Flesh mutilated by bullets and bombs, lungs and brains choked by toxic fumes, hearts stop beating; no war, if only we could have peace, in vain we feign scream.

All these and more, the heinous, repugnant, the unspeakable, the unthinkable, we as a collective have chosen to be.

It is neither God or a devil who has imprisoned us in nightmare and it will be neither they that make the choice that will set us free.

Love is not some passing fancy, a fad of flower children dancing on fields on green, it is our salivation, our truth, our eternity, our infinite destiny…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the survivors are innocent. These are good reasons for keeping our mouths shut about the past: but tell me, what are our reasons for silence about atrocities still to come?” ~ Damon KnightPass

There is the one truth and I have remembered
Though struggle my mortal mind to cling
There is nothing, save one thing
About me, this life, that is not dream
Not my first strong breath, nor last gasp
Nor fear I will have imagined between
Nay it is LOVE, that is the one truth
That is real; not just an illusion fleeting

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~ Plato

Such funny little primate illusions are we
Cartoons with the choice to be
Err, excuse, failure, fear, flesh and flaw
Or reason, right, success, LOVE, God and perfection
And time and again we choose arghhh, anvil on head; coyote
Over beep, beep, roadrunner, running wild and free
LOVE in Toontown; that’s all folks…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

We without LOVE are but hollow vessels that must be filled; the thirst that must be quenched. For life without LOVE is the vacuum nature abhors; be still, be silent, be filled. LOVE is the most subtle of all forces; drink from its invisible, infinite well.

Hollow no more, thirsty no more, filled I am, drunk on LOVE…

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.” ~ Saul Bellow