Love, Peace, and All that Good Stuff

Why is it that not everyone wants this world to flow with Love? Regardless of our diversity in thought and culture, surely Love is our bottom line--our harmony among all beings. Yet, we use land, natural resources, economics, religion, power, and--ironically--our wonderful cultural diversity as reasons to squabble or, worse, to make war. Not a pleasing observation to most of us.

What is Love? There are as many or more opinions about Love as there are people. To mention just two views--some people see it as an emotion, often based on conditions, and some people see it as far more. This latter concept composes the premise of my discussion--that Love is an unconditional non-personified God, known by many names including but not confined to Source Energy, the Gap, All-That-Is, or the eternal boundless field of all possibilities--a non-place of the unmanifest from which desire shoots forth and transforms into the manifest. Love is indivisible nonphysical energy, which yields a harmonious connection among us all in the physical. Love creates, permeates, and sustains. It is imperishable.

Yet, although enduring, Love can seem obscure--when masked by man's greed, anger, distrust, insecurity, intolerance, and hate. And by man's fear. Fear of lack--fear that there is not enough to go around. And fear of each other. We see evidence of this life-choking emotion in wars and other conflicts. And that which we observe, we create more of--such is the begetting of these evidential conflicts. In this manner, fear and other negative emotions--all the same, really--are perpetuated and so become even more real to us. Yet, they all simplify down to one thing--our perceived absence of Love.

Is there an answer as to what we can do about the caustic discord caused by this perceived absence that sometimes eats away at our diverse cultural societies and sometimes makes war? Well, we cannot change the world. But we can change ourselves. The dichotomy is that when we change ourselves, we influence the world. And we certainly change our personal universe. In fact, we each have a view of the world that alters as we alter our thoughts.