No vast accumulations of wealth and power can or should stop it, we all eventually one day die, it matters not how life was lived or survived; weak or strong, rich or poor. In the end as the shadow across the light of this life grows long and fear of the unknown creeps into the last of our waking thoughts, we all want and need the same one thing, to know that we are not alone, to know that we will be remembered, to know that we are loved; even if in just one heart we are held dear. Their touch making the cold of our shallow breaths not so, comforting our grief and regret stricken mind, easing the terror. Wishing us gently, goodnight, sweet dreams, travel well. I knew your soul and I will see you again someday, when we are whole, when we are home…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.” ~ Mark Twain

Where there is always LOVE there is always faith
Where there is always faith, there is always hope
Where there is always hope there is always happiness
Where there is always LOVE, faith, hope and happiness
There is nothing that is not always possible

LOVE is willingness to accept the infinite probability that you can and will achieve the impossible…

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” ~ John Heywood

Embrace all faiths and teachers whose source is LOVE and understanding is of the oneness, but shun all ignorances and deceivers whose source is fear and misleadings are of separation. 

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.” 
~ Rumi

Doubt is always present. as faith is being honed
Shadow is always cast, as light is being shown
Lie is always glaring, as truth is being known
Fear is always felt, as LOVE is being sown
Blade is always sharpened, upon dull stone…

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.” ~ Herman Hesse

Fear is the doing of nothing
LOVE is the being of everything…

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“The Way to do is to be.” ~ Lao Tzu

One of the by products of self awareness is ego; ego in the extreme is insecurity, insecurity in the extreme is self loathing, self loathing taken to the extreme manifests as spiritual imbalance, leading to depression, madness, suicide and or homicide. We see now in humanity the extremes of ego, insecurity and self loathing taken to their nth degree. Only a healthy, secure awareness of self, that exists beyond the reflection of the looking glass, can restore balance; through first self soothing, then self healing and then finally self loving. Only by loving and saving ourselves can our selves be loved and saved.

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ C.G. Jung

Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha all shared the dream that one day all men would live as equals in truth, peace, harmony, happiness, freedom and LOVE.

We stand at a final crossroads one path leads to realization of the dream and the other the annihilation of the species the dream was dreamt for.

I offer this as admonishment, an observation of facts, a defining of choice to be made, not harsh warning or threat; for I know no being can be feared into loving.

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

REMEMBER THE DREAM…

Unconditional LOVE and unconditional forgiveness both share the same requirement, to LOVE another without condition you must first LOVE yourself without condition and to forgive another without condition you must first forgive yourself without condition. In doing so LOVE and forgiveness become your natural states of being no matter the other or the condition. 

I already LOVE you, because I already LOVE me…
I already forgave you, because I already forgave me…

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” ~ Louis B. Smedes

Though you have chosen to die on bed of thorns my LOVE covered by a blanket of fear, to your final day I will stay, until you’re fading light is gone and my final tear for you hath fallen, so that you may know in your final breath, forever I have loved you still. Still now, silent now, in the arms of LOVE now, resting in peace, the last of the sadists and masochists has passed; I need weep for you no more. Sweet dreams of Infinity my LOVE know that I loved you because I understood you, because I was you…

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.” ~ John Steinbeck

Fear distorts and strips from memory the joy of experiencing in purest form what already is perfection. 

Decadence and greed is fear perverting and hoarding the happiness and abundance that is life, that is LOVE.

We have been given all we need to live in bliss, it is our irrational want that leads to tribulation in this. 

Just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.” ~ Lucretius