The Three Things I Built My Life Around: Love, Curiosity, and Creation

I don't think I'm my body. I think we're energy, frequency, light — call it source, call it the divine, call it whatever lands for you. We're inhabiting these material bodies to do material things in a material world, but in our most pure form we all came from the same place. We're one. The reason the world feels so broken is that we've been taught to believe the opposite — that we're separate from each other, separate from nature, separate from anything bigger than ourselves. Almost every form of evil I can point at traces back to that lie.

For most of my younger years I knew there was more to life than just doing what everyone else was doing, but I didn't know what to do with that feeling. So I rebelled in destructive ways. I wasn't fitting the mould, but I also wasn't doing myself any favours. Eventually the consequences got loud enough that I couldn't ignore them, and the moment I stopped running from them and started treating them as signposts, my life started to actually move.

That's the path that pointed me toward something bigger. And the more I sat with it, the more I came back to three things I now try to organise my whole life around: love, curiosity, and creation.

Why these three

I keep landing on these because they're what I think a creator — God, source, whatever word you want — actually looks like.

If there's a divine force behind all of this, it would be a creator. The infinite, invisible, internal, all-being, all-knowing source of everything. Creation is its nature.

It would be love. The kind that gives endlessly without ever needing anything back. Unconditional. Permanent. The kind that holds all things equally.

And it would be curious. It hands us free will, doesn't hand us an instruction manual, doesn't step in to micromanage. It just lets us go and watches what we do with it.

So if those three things are the signature of the source we came from, it makes sense that living in alignment with those same three things is what feels like coming home.

Creation

We're here to create. To create the reality we actually want with the choices we make every day. To create life by raising a family. To create things that are a real expression of who we are — art, music, a piece of furniture, a business, a movement, a meal, a moment. Whatever it is.

What you create has the ability to outlive you. It keeps your memory alive in the people you love, and sometimes far beyond them. Most people walk through their whole life as consumers and never realise they were built to make things.

Love

Love is the practice of treating everything outside of yourself the way you'd want to be treated. And I don't just mean the people you like. I mean your neighbour in the broadest possible sense — every person, every animal, every tree, every rock. We came from the same source, so the divine is in all of it.

When you can see that, the surface stuff falls away. Race, religion, background, status, whatever flaws you'd normally fixate on — none of it changes the thing underneath. Love means acting with the welfare of all in mind, all the time. If everyone moved through the world this way, you wouldn't recognise the place.

Curiosity

Curiosity is openness. It's being willing to be wrong. It's listening to ideas and perspectives you would have written off five years ago. It's an honest pull toward truth, and a willingness to suspend your beliefs, judgements, and assumptions long enough to actually see something for what it is — not for what you've decided it is.

Most people stop being curious somewhere in their twenties and spend the rest of their life defending the conclusions they reached when they didn't know much. Don't do that.

What happens when you live this way

When creation, love, and curiosity are running the show, life starts to feel different. There's more peace. More meaning. More fulfilment. You stop chasing the short-term hits that never actually satisfy and you start building a life that's true to you.

You won't get there in a week. I'm still in the middle of it. But this is the direction. This is what I'm pointing at every time I work with someone, every time I move my body, every time I sit in stillness. Three things. Love, curiosity, creation. Build a life around them and watch what happens.