Going Love First

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1 • Love First Is… An Idea

1 • Love First Is… An Idea

At the heart of everything I’ve devoted my life to, this unyielding idea cannot be stopped.

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Faruk Ateş
May 16, 2023
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Three Rumi quotes, drawn on a wall alongside some art: "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."  "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal." "Only from the heart can you touch the sky."

Today the Elements come together.

Today the dots become connected.

Today I “Cut through organizational impediments and get some real work done.” (Geez, alright already, fortune cookie!)

The idea of Love First came to me in a vision, a spiritual awakening of sort. This trance connected me with the infinite Love of the Universe, lifting me from the darkest, deepest depression of my life and launching me into the ether of endless possibilities.

Within moments of my lift-off, this idea evolved into a bigger picture: a philosophy, a way of life, a framework for understanding the world in new ways. Then it transformed into concrete tangibles, forming pieces of the puzzle that was my life. Where before it had been in shambles, my soul sitting dimly in my life’s rock bottom, here now appeared before me a brilliant picture of the life I could live. A life that mattered. A life made with love, first.

All my passions, all my ideas and interests and desires to make a better world, they all converged i…

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