When I first sat down to answer the question, "What would a world motivated by love actually look like?", I was perplexed.  I thought that I had it all figured out, but what I realized were two things-what I was describing as a world based on love was all about how the world wouldn't look or how it wouldn't be like it is now.  It wouldn't have "this" and it wouldn't have "that."  I realized that I didn't actually know how a world motivated by love might look.  This led me to my second awareness and that is how if I didn't have a better picture of the future, how could I ever help to create a better future?  I began my initial description by saying things like "Gone are the days of NOT enough money, love, time, etc."  Gone are the beliefs that "this guy will get more money than me", "Everyone else has more opportunity than me", "I'll never find Mr. Right and my biological clock is ticking,"  Gone are the days in which our differences are something to be changed and judged as bad, wrong, evil. Gone is a world that tries to convert you or kill you because you are different or you disagree with a particular set of beliefs.  It was then that I realized that I was telling what would be "missing" from this new world and not what would be present in it.  I realized that I was reacting to what is right now, but I couldn't tell you exactly what it would be.

     In an effort to create this new world, I turned to spiritual sources ranging from the Bible to Yoga.  I was surprised to find that I wasn't the only one who saw things in the negative.  For example, the Yamas of Yoga (put in layman's terms) are the tenants of NON-violence, Honesty, NON-stealing, moderation, Non-hoarding.  And yet again, I found that It was non-non-non-non.  I started to call this NON-Sense.  Even the Ten Commandments, are filled with "thou shall not________, and "thou shall not________."  Here I was again, falling into reactionary instead of initiary energy.

     I suppose that this NOT thing would be okay except for the fact that regarding the laws of physics, we live in a positive universe, meaning that we live in a world that does not understand or acknowledge the NOT.  In scientific terminology, positive and negative aren't judgments.  Positive doesn't mean something is "good" and negative mean something is "bad".  Instead in science, positive and negative describe the presence or absence of a certain kind of energy.

     When it is stated that we live in a positive universe it by no means says that everyone is in a good mood.  It rather defines the presence of energy.  For example, if you tell a child "Don't run", what is the first thing that child will typically do? RUN!  Why?  Because of the aspect of physics that says we live in a "positive" universe.  That child saw a picture of RUN in his head.  He didn't see RUN with a circle and line drawn through it, he saw RUN.  If you were to say "WALK, please" the picture the child sees is WALK.  We make pictures of what we hear.  There is a story about a master and an apprentice.  The apprentice says to the master, "What do I need to do to be enlightened."  The master says "Never think of pink elephants." Because we live in a positive universe, every time the apprentice thinks about enlightenment, he now thinks about pink elephants.

     Now you are able to see where a problem arises with the absence of a picture of a world based on love.  If we continue to say not, not, not then all we are doing is creating the same picture (and therefore the same future), over and over, because the universe only acknowledges the image, not the NOT!  I cannot create a different future if I don't have a new positive vision in place.

    I continue my search for this new "positive" conception.  I found a quote by Dante in which he talks about "a love so deep, it turns the sun."  It is from this statement that I have chosen to generate my picture of a world motivated by love rather than fear.  Now if I imagine a world in which people's motivating energy is love it looks very different.  It is a world of gratitude, respect and compassion.  It is a world we agree to disagree.  Enter the day of acceptance.  Enter the day of peace.  Enter a world in which each and every moment we feel the love of God, self and others in its fullest form; a "love so deep it turns the sun."