Love First Is… A Shared Identity
Because Humanity deserves and needs a way to bridge our differences.
The challenges we face demand more than policy and business changes. We need social change and culture change, but above all, we need a change in how we see ourselves.
We need a conscious evolution of our collective identity.
Being a Human Person™ is the one common denominator we all share, but it says nothing about who we want to be or where we want Humanity to go. It doesn’t speak to our future; it merely reflects our past. And as much as we are Humanity, we are not separate from nature. We are not “above” nature. We are nature, an inextricable part of it, and that makes us as interdependent as any other part of nature is with its surrounding ecologies.
That’s why Love First offers a shared group identity that anyone and everyone can embrace and make their own: the Love First Person.
To be a Love First Person means to be one of the many people that are trying to make a better, more conscious, and more loving world that works for everyone. A world where all people are free from oppression, apartheid, and exploitation. A Just, Equitable, Diverse, and Interdependent world.
To make that happen, we need to do more than ‘just’ (ha!) change our inner world for the better. We need to stand strong in solidarity, and we need to use subversive tactics to spread our message and our mission. That’s why Love First is so important to embrace as an identity, because it helps us accomplish all of those things. Identifying as a Love First Person signals so much more than ‘just’ practicing some new philosophical teachings. It creates awareness, and it offers a profoundly powerful benefit for your personal self-image. It serves as an immediate, constant ethical compass in times of challenge or strife.
Being a Love First Person is saying: I am practicing the teachings of Love First and trying to live in alignment with Love in everything I do.
Which means, any time you encounter another Love First Person somewhere, you have a shared identity in common it might invite a different way to interact or be together.
But being a Person is just the baseline, our most common denominator. That’s why Love First also doubles as a prefix to your existing identity—any way you slice it.
I’ll explain that in the next issue!
Be with Love 🫶🏼
Faruk a.k.a. Supernova