Love Not Fear — higher order leadership in an age of turmoil

We need to talk about Love. Love as the defining force of our lives, and of the world. Love as the driver of the higher order thinking we need to effect change in this world. Love as the only foundation of all the issues our world is confronting right now.

We need to ensure each decision we make, whether those that affect our own lives, the lives of our families and communities, and those of the world at large, are informed by Love. We need to get beyond partisan politics, who said what and what wasn’t said, who was right and who was wrong, and let Love speak — and DO! — for itself.

We need to talk honestly about what’s happening in the world. How hate and fear is threatening to eat away at humanity’s progress. We can no longer smokescreen around the issues that are emerging and couch them in purely economic, political, environmental or geographical terms, rationalising away the choices that have been made based on human need. We need to ensure that each decision we make is ‘rooted and grounded in Love’. And acknowledge our responsibility to make sure our choices are always those based in Love. We need to be ‘extremists for Love’[1].

Love is, and always has been, the greatest force available to mankind. Fossil fuels, solar power, political and economic power are nothing when we see that the…