“If you think love is what you want, you will always be searching for it. If you think love is what you are, you will go and share it all over the place.” Neale Donald Walsch coined this sentiment inviting you to shift your orientation of who you actually are. One view comes from a place of needing or lack and the other one comes from a place of inner power. Love’s feeling is so delicious that we are constantly looking for ways to feel it again that many times this euphoria is temporarily gained in unhealthy ways. This longing shapes our entire existence in what we will do for love.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about love and have read many ideas about manifesting more love in your life. I like the idea that love is the energetic glue that holds our very planet together. It is the life force that is circulating through every living thing on the planet. It is infused in every cell and can never be fully destroyed.
I have come to realize that I don’t need to search for it, I already have it. It is waiting inside me to be re -acknowledged. No matter what pain I have gone through this inner love has been waiting for me to realign to it. I now see that to really find great love I must have great love within myself.
This has taken me quite awhile to see this truth. We all carry limiting stories about ourselves from past experiences but they were never ours to keep. They may have happened to us but it is our job to evolve from them. What is your love identity that you have about yourself ?
Having one day a year celebrating love is not enough. Reflect on how to love yourself more, show love to others more and be grateful for all the love that you have received. I will practice being love. This excites me. I don’t have to “ be” the sad stories of myself. They have no power over me because I will catch myself when I think these untruths. I will stop for a moment and welcome the lies and breathe them away. Then I will welcome the feeling of love radiating from inside me. This will be my truth. I will evolve from my stories that keep me trapped. I will rescue myself instead of waiting to be rescued.
We don’t have to be afraid. Love is who we are and who we will always be. Even death cannot diminish us. So shine brightly knowing that you are good, you deserve to be loved and you must love yourself. See your own inner light and know that it is in others. Like the love of the planet, it persists through all the suffering and destruction awaiting its igniting. Each time we choose to truly love ourselves, we are adding to its flame and an inferno spreads.