One Love

 

No Conditions, Just Love

One of the many messages that came out of the wonderful Peace Tree Festival in Amsterdam in August 2025, was references to love. 

Ultimately when you think about it, love is powerful, energetic, sincere, and pure. It’s an internal energy source fueled by an inner self that respects, honours, appreciates, supports, cares for, embraces, encourages, challenges, and celebrates one’s whole being. 

Love works wonders for people and it works wonders for causes. When we get together and work in unison, with cooperation, collaboration, concentration, and connection, humanity has accomplished a great deal since the beginning of time. 

Unfortunately, perhaps due to greed, jealousy, envy, stubbornness, indoctrination, selfishness, and many other synonyms, our planet has deteriorated, humanity and the animal kingdom are progressively suffering, and love remains lost in the dust.

In this case, the case of moving the peace movement forward, it sounds like love would be  a viable energy source to establish a peaceful life for all of humanity, Nature, and our privileged planet, for generations to come. 

I know this idea sounds far fetched to a certain demographic, but “don’t knock it until you’ve tried it”! It is a harmless exercise, using human hands, human arms, human minds, hearts and spirit. Start small, and get the wave moving.

So, this movement to promote meaningful fresh starts such as using the newly planted  tree, literally and figuratively as a full metaphor of the goals and objectives of the founders and followers of the LetLoveRulePeace concept, is an initiative to get humanity to start small and get tuned into the reality of our deteriorating world. Sitting back does nothing.

We need humanity to open their eyes, mind and heart, and get involved in problem solving. Bitching and complaining does not work. Pointing fingers does not work. Being confrontational, arrogant and unwilling to see a bigger picture outside of a tiny pill box, does not work. Plant a seed, covet it, water it, help it grow. Or see a seed has been planted, covet it, water it, help it grow. Connect with it and protect it. Help move the wave forward.

Life moves forward best in fertile soil. Life moves forward best when well rooted and well nurtured. Life moves forward best when love is the dominate source of energy that moves things forward for the greater good of all.

On Facebook I receive a lot of cutesy sayings to inspire and help people going through tough times. They are seeds and free for all to nurture and sow. They are good food for thought and energize the readers to look in the mirror and see what is there. I applaud the movement behind those sayings because it is a great way to get people to think and to give the sayings legs. The hope is that those legs keep moving forward beyond “self” and extend to the bigger picture of the troubled (unpeaceful) lives and situations in our homes, communities, and entire world.

The answer, in the end of all the dogma, cute sayings and therapies, is LOVE. I was going to preface that strong word with “unconditional” but to me that would be an oxymoron. Actual love and actually loving someone or something can only be unconditional…there is only one actual LOVE and that is LOVE. First step to getting there is loving oneself, truly loving oneself; only then can you understand and feel love ; once you are there in heart, mind and spirit, you will feel calm, collected, respected, self confident and ready to love others — and apply love to all tasks, trials and tribulations.

It all starts with one, number one — YOU. One seed, one implanted root,  joining other seeds and other roots, and keeping the focus on love of self, of people, of Nature and of our planet Earth…yes it sounds impossible, but who would have thought a light bulb could ever be invented and universally accepted? It took one person, one seed, one root and now the entire world is connected. Let it also be so for peace.