You are Love
When you are present, you are love, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
You radiate love in the same way that a candle flame radiates light and it has nothing to do with who or what you love. Humanity has become hopelessly lost in love. We lose ourselves in the object of our love and in the process, we lose ourselves. We disconnect from the source of the love, which exists at the very center of our Being. Then we feel a certain kind of emptiness, because we have moved away from the center. We are afraid of the emptiness, and so we relentlessly pursue love outside of ourselves. We want to be loved. We fall in love. We lose ourselves in the object of the love, which takes us further from the center. Eventually, we become so lost in the pursuit of love and all the hope, pain, fear and attachments associated with it, that we can no longer be present. And if we cannot be present, we cannot find our way back to the source of the love, which is at the very center within us.
The truth is that if you love anyone or anything, it simply means that you are love. The one you are loving in the moment might be lovable, but the source of the love is always within you. If another loves you, do not take it too personally. It simply means that the other is love. If I am present and I am love, and you are present and you are love, then why do I need you to love me? Why do you need me to love you? The truth is that we do not need to be loved, for if we are present, we are love. So let us hold hands, and gaze together upon this wondrous world with love.
Love everything. Love the dogs. Love the children. Love the trees. Love your wife or husband. But remember it is because you are love.
~Leonard Jacobson
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March 17th, 2010 at 11:57 am
This is so well put and beautiful
March 18th, 2010 at 8:33 am
I don’t know how this monumental teaching for humanity could be put more succinctly. It now falls upon each of us to “get it”! Many thanks to you Leonard and love to all.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Ah yes yes yes..I feel so much the love that I am..and it’s so much easier to see the love that others, and everything around me are, and is..thanks for that love Leonard that you share so abundantly..and that you, yourself reflect so generously.
April 13th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Love this!
April 28th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Very well explained. The solution to all relationship problems. All relations are ultimately with the self.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:03 am
I appreciate so much, your fearlessness in this article. It’s an assertion–”You are Love”–that cannot be proven, but you state it as though it just “is”–which, of course, it just is.
You make me brave.