In Loving Others We Love Ourselves

Everything we do is both the thank you and the prayer. The gratitude and the gift are one.

We long for true, soul-connected love and the love of a soulmate because what we truly long for is to remember and experience the true love of Source. In loving another, we are really loving our Selves, and God*. In cultivating a personal, intimate relationship with another person, we are really forming a relationship with God. Because that person is a manifestation of God, and in loving them fully and openly, we are really loving God. Our personal relationship with others and our personal relationship with God is one and the same thing.

We are driven to love others because love is our essential nature. We want to love that which we all are, we want to pour love and gratitude on our creative source, on our essential core being, and so we pour that into other beings because they are tangible representations of this essence, this creative love we all come from, all consist of, all feel such love and gratitude and pull towards. A true, connected, soulful relationship is a daily prayer, a commitment to love not just the physical manifestation we perceive as that person, but also the essence of God that is in them and ourselves and all of life and matter and everything in between. In loving another, we love God.

Our truest work, our purest work, our deepest calling, is to love. To love, as both verb and noun. We are called to the action of love, the demonstration of love, to loving every person and thing around us. And we are called to this expression because we are called to Love, to that truest essence from whence we came and from which we are made, of which we consist. We are called to Love (n) because that is what we are, and thus we are called to love (v) because that is the purest expression of what we are. And thus in loving, we give the gift of love not only to others but also to ourselves. Love, when given to others, fulfils our own desire for the experience of our truest essence of love as much as it fulfils that same desire in the receiver.

And thus the wisdom of these words, which recognise the only true purpose in life:

“The greatest thing
you’ll ever learn
is just to love
and be loved in return.”

*NB: I use the term 'God' for convenience - I do not mean it in a religious sense that many people understand it in. I use 'God' to mean that energy from which everything consists. Words such as Higher Source, Self, essence, Love and so forth are, to me, all synonyms for 'God'. Please substitute for yourself whatever you are comfortable with if this message resonates for you.