Love Day
This is the Valentine’s day edition of the blog. The topic today is a topic called I want to be loved. A lot of us feel that and have probably said that phrase: “I want to be loved.” It’s kind of fun to take it apart and examine that thought and that phrase and that belief.
The first thing you can notice in the statement: “I want to be loved” is that it is set in the past tense. There is this quality (and I talk about it at the Matrix) there is this void - something that we haven't received. When we put it in the past, we’re basically saying I want to go back in the past and receive the love that I haven't received; which makes a lot of sense because there's a certain aspect or way in which we recognize that we would feel differently about ourselves, we might feel differently about life if we had received love in a different way or a specific way or differently at some point in our life. There is this yearning to go back and repair that wounded one. If we can let go of that, if we can heal that past aspect, we can actually drop the past tense to that.
If we drop the past tense, we say “I want love” instead of “I want to be loved.” Meaning, I want to receive love or even I want to receive love in the future. As soon as I say I want anything, I'm emphasizing the fact that I don't have it. One of the definitions of the word “want” is lack of…, as soon as you are wanting, you’re not having. You can’t want and have at the same time. So, when you say “I want love”, you're saying you don't have love.
If we drop that aspect of lacking, it comes down to “I love” and that is beautiful. In fact, it's the most powerful approach to love there is. In fact, if somebody else is loving me I can feel or I can have somebody express their love to me and not feel the love. I'm sure we have all had that experience where somebody proclaims their love for us, but we don't feel anything from it. Just having somebody else loving us actually never fixes the thing. We can have all sorts of people loving us and still feel the lack of love or still be wanting love. So, really, the only way to experience love isn’t to receive it, but to be it or express it: “I love.”
Loving is the best feeling in the universe and it's wonderful to seek out and find different opportunities for love. It’s why I love to find a great book. “I love this book” that's the feeling of love. “I love this movie” or “I love this thing,” or “I love this team.” We all love to find things to love because it's the best feeling. It’s why we yearn for the right person. It’s why children are so wonderful is just they all give us an opportunity to love, so I recommend healing up any past lack of love, I recommend giving up the idea that you lack love and spend the rest of your life looking for things and people to love, the more the merrier!
Happy Valentine's Day.