LOVE
"Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness"
FROM WIKIPEDIA
The difference between love and hate is that when one lets love consume them, they will never lose the ability to be truly happy in any situation. Hate and a disposition towards negativity and closed-minded ness is the equal opposite and leads to the feelings of hopelessness, despair, insensitivity, and ignorance... As simply as logic can put it would be to say that "God is Love" and by God, i mean whatever you would mean had you said it yourself; the ultimate meaning behind life and the entire universe. Whether or not you believe god to exist somewhere (or everywhere), the power of love itself is worth worshiping.
This personal philosophy, once tapped into and more fully realized has the power to transform every aspect of your life in front of your eyes, and is evidenced by the long standing tradition of major religions across the world and across time teaching the importance of love as of supreme importance.
What we see though, is that throughout history the relationship between love and hate, god and ignorance has had a very complicated relationship. When people have decided to start a church at any point in the history of mankind, it has usually been because, they feel they have discovered the true nature of God and the Universe through their own or someone else's personal philosophy. The inate flaw in many of their systems though, was that the true power of love was never realized by most of the people that upheld these traditions, for love being equivilent to God, is infinite and unstopable, but church and tradition are innately flawed in that they preach separatism and exclusivity. How can God be truly realized when spiritual leaders teach that its not good enough to have reached God personally, and through your own experiences if it is not done the "right" way, which usually boils down to nothing less then promising your eternal soul to one side or the other. It seems to be an obvious flaw that unfortunatly is very hard to reverse, due to millennia of disagreement and tradition.
Whether you are an atheist, agnostic, christian, jew, muslim, hindu, buddhist, rastafari, or ________it is important to realize that we are all the same, as pieces in the great puzzle of existence, and whether we identify with chaos, God, Elohim, Allah, Jah, Yo, the Great Spirit, etc., there is not a single difference in what we are labeling, besides the labels. We are all trying to find our place in this universe and to discover the true purpose behind it all. It may be too obvious to even point out, but it is true to the utmost that the real purpose behind the universe always has been and always will be one and the same, a constant, just like existence itself. Isn't it obvious then, that the only differences between religions and groups of people are the names that they have given to the same all important concepts. If love can overcome and humans can learn to happily coexist, then we will be truly moving in the direction that our mother earth, and any god that may rule over existence has intended us to.
If we are truly to ensure our future and bring peace to our people, we need to learn what it really means to live, love, and unite.
