THE AMAZING RESULTS OF SHIFTING FROM LOOKING FOR and TRYING TO GET LOVE to BEING LOVING and CARING

How I learned to LOVE and discovered and tapped into the ocean of Love in my own heart.

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HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE… and DISCOVERED THE OCEAN OF LOVE IN MY OWN HEART

When I recently published a story entitled “Love Is Our Purpose and Guiding Light”, one of my faithful readers commented with just two wistful words—- “Elusive Love.”

In case you missed that story, you can read it here:

I couldn’t help replying to her comment, and here is what I wrote to her…

“Thank you for commenting Dear Reader!”

I know that feeling very well…for me, it was always an aching in my heart, feeling something missing from my life, feeling loneliness so deeply that it seemed I would always be lonely, and that was very painful. 

I could not understand why people I wanted to be close with had little interest in being close with me, didn’t see me and were often mean or annoyed.

I was trying to get love—like a thirsty man in the desert searching for water where none was to be found.

This longing to be loved, to share love and to love was a good thing in my case because it kept me engaged in searching for answers and ways to become free of the painful loneliness.

Fortunately, I met and became a student of realized teachers who knew the answer, had become beings of pure Love themselves and who patiently taught me the principles and gave me the tools,( the spiritual practices such as meditation, prayer, kirtan, mantra yoga and seva…selfless service) that I have used ever since on my own journey into the heart of Love.

Because I suffered so much from loneliness, and being bullied and ostracized all through my childhood, I was highly motivated to do the inner work necessary to free myself from suffering. 

This gave me the desire, the power and the focus to devote myself wholeheartedly to learning HOW TO LOVE.

I realized early on that the key to everything I wanted and needed in the realm of Love depends on developing a real and expanding Love, appreciation and respect for myself.

I discovered that it is far harder to love myself than it is to love even my closest beloved.