All of us need to be loved. In so many ways we do what we can to obtain love, whatever we believe is necessary in order to encourage it, be worthy of it, and hang onto it. The only problem is this: It's wasted effort, which diverts us from knowing that Love is already here for us. Love is here, throughout our being, pervading and enveloping us with its constant presence -- if only we would open ourselves to it and allow ourselves to know it in its fullness, depth, warmth, and richness.
Why all the unnecessary striving? Because we so easily close our eyes to the real Love that is there all along and look for it outside of ourselves, as if someone else can give us what we already have but won't face.
When we dare to recognize the Love that characterizes our being -- and dare to inhabit it and know that it IS us -- then love is not something we need; we don't have to become worthy of it, we don't have to grasp for it, we don't have to hanker after it, we don't need to manipulate anything or anyone to get it. It just is.
And that is beautiful.
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