Love… It is a need from the minute we’re born if we are to flourish. We can endure, but we do not flourish if we do not obtain copious love. It’s not any wonder we toil so rigorously to get it. No wonder we strive so intensely to be perfect and do everything properly to maintain control over receiving love. No wonder we get anxious, irritated or downcast when we do not obtain the love we require. No wonder we use numerous substance and process addictions to dull the ache when we are feeling isolated and unloved.

When we were little, our parents or other caregivers needed to be our supplier of love. We were too undeveloped to gain access to the love we required by ourselves. To us, our parents were akin to God – they alone were our supplier of being and love.

As we became older, we were meant to alter our focus from receiving love from our parents to receiving the love that is God, the Oversoul. Nonetheless, as the majority of our parents didn’t realize how to do this for themselves, they had no idea of a way to demonstrate it to us. Lots of us never learned to approach the love that is inestimable and at all times accessible to us.

A good number of people, as adults, are stuck in trying to get love and prevent pain.

• Do you seek to get love by giving yourself to others, hoping that they will furnish you the love you require? Are you giving to get?

• Do you seek to induce others to love you by way of coercion and guilt? Do you get mad, scheming, or blaming to try to cause others to give you themselves and provide you the love you yearn for and require?

• Do you close down and blunt out with alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex, TV, work, etc., to prevent the pain of feeling alone, lonely, and unloved? Do you use addictions to steer clear of the agony of not feeling loved?

• Are you attempting to make other people, substances, possessions or activities yoursource of love?

There’s only one actual Source of love. This Source is the Universe we live in. The Source of love is whatever is your conception of God/Spirit, Infinite Intelligence, Universal Mind, the All In All, and so on. God is Love, and love is constantly about us and within us. Nevertheless you will feel this love only when your spirit is unlocked to learning about loving yourself.

To the level that you are attempting to get your love from others and elude pain with your addictions, whatever they may be, your core is closed and you will not feel the love that is continuously there for you. Only as you alter your purpose from receiving love and avoiding pain, to having love for yourself and sharing that love with others, will you cease feeling so barren, isolated and lonely. It is only when you cease making people, places, things and substances your supplier and turn to Spirit as your Source can you experience the breadth of love within you.

The secret to this transferal is to cease making other people and addictions accountable for your feelings and determine to take complete, 100% accountability for your own private feelings of elation and well being. As your intent alters to learning around taking loving achievement for yourself, you’ll ascertain how to imbue yourself with love from The Source and impart that love with other people.

Sharing love is entirely distinct from giving love to get love in return. Sharing love radiates from a full home within, a spot that doesn’t require anything in trade from another person. After we learn to grasp loving action in our own behalf, we become so overflowing with love that it truly overflows. After this is the state of affairs, we get great happiness in givingout our love. We no longer undertake to be the supplier of love for others, and we don’t any longer try to compel others to be our source of love.

Today, try to focus upon opening yourself to learning what is in your greatest good. Ask yourself the inquiry repeatedly all the way through the day, “What is in my uppermost good at this time?” As answers pop into your thoughts, take the loving action on your own personal behalf. Then note how peaceful and fulfilled you feel, and just how good it feels to share your love and joyfulness with others.