As we struggle through the highest highs and the lowest lows in this experience of life our choices send our way, feeling always that lows last an eternity and highs we wish immortality for, its good to remember one simple truth; nothing last forever, not this life, not the stars that shine at night or even the universe itself. Yes, its true, no thing of matter lasts forever, as impermanence is absolute nature of any physical reality; the only thing that lasts forever, is forever itself. Which is but an infinite subset of LOVE, God, Infinity…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin

“The Universe is very, very big.
It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.
Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.
Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.” ~ Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

When our want of profit comes before our need of faith in wonder, imagination, innovation, no real progress can be made; only stagnation and regression, wrapped in the pretty paper of clever, but self devouring technology; gluttonous ravaging, until there is nothing left but skeletons and dried hollow carcasses scattered across the barren desert wasteland that were once lush rain forests, fed by nigh unstoppable life giving rivers, now just cracked beds of toxic sludge, devoid of all life. That is what the capitalist system has devolved into, an economic structure built on a fairytale philosophy of unlimited growth; a system out of control, the we no longer drive, but rather now drives us; fueled by deep wells of our fear, trying to suck the marrow of LOVE from the bones of life.

What is God?
God is everything

Where is God?
God is everywhere

Lives, existences, are but series of briefest moments, experiences ever unfolding, creating the endless story, stories being told; how those lives, existences, briefest moments of experience are experienced is your choice, your LOVE story to tell; remember always however, you are not defined by the experience, the LOVE story being told, the experience, the LOVE story being told is defined by you.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” ~ Oscar Wilde

For all their imaginings of Godhood, most live lives far from their divinity, huddling, shivering in the shadows of their fear, far away from light of the LOVE they are, afraid to step into what was once known, but now forgotten, unknown; letting go the fear of falling is the first step to remembering that you once could soar.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.” ~ Pope John Paul

Looking out over the battlefield observing, the enlightened being in LOVE remembered, having accepted the truth that there is only one, picks no side in war, for she knows all sides she innately, eternally is and already too long she smiles from the infinite depth of soul, “With herself has she been conflicted.” Yes, she mused her spirit in bliss, “The oneness that is LOVE picks no side in war.”

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin

“The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego — ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.” ~ George Meredith

To know LOVE, is to move beyond the finite realm of impossibility and into the courageous experience of never ending wonder.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” ~ Thomas A Kempis

Now that we know we can choose and have remembered what the choices are, it is time to choose our experience of eternal life born this newly rediscovered wisdom to be one of LOVE in grace, over our eons ancient choice made out ignorance and or stupidity of love in fear; we can soar through eternity, as soul form angels or continue to crawl on bellies, bumbling about like barbaric oafs.

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin

“The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.” ~ Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept