It is said: "we are love", then why are we longing for love (outside)? Are we longing for ourselves?

Question

It is said: "we are love", then why are we longing for love (outside)? Are we longing for ourselves?

Answer 1

Here is something I wrote, as an answer, in another question...

Love, as i see it and feel it, cannot be possessed (on the "outside" as you say). It is not a commodity that is traded back and forth between one another...

Love is the driving force (the passionate energy) that flows thru us with reckless abandon, spewing itself into the world for one purpose... to BE!

And to truly "love another," all it takes is acceptance... accepting another's "display" of Love! (And that is all life is... displays of love!)

And when this is reciprocated, the two become one... in love.

Answer 2

I love,therefore I am

love

Pluto

Answer 3

Maybe the person that said "we are love" was wrong.

And even so, the same reason we seek love from others after already having so much from friends/families/lovers.

Answer 4

Soul gives up its reflexivity -- that quality in which it equals itself -- that is, its own union and unification, with its totality, once agreeing to take up life in Duality, that of the lower worlds.

Once embarking on this, this PCS (Permanent Change of Station) as is called in the military, this one long and great journey, Soul willingly and consciously and in full agreement splits off from its unification, after which point its completeness now takes on polarity -- now masculine, now feminine or even some form of neuter (which is what the modern world -- especially in that of the Western world -- has such considerable struggle with today, for it does not understand this true reality -- even amid all its scientific knowledge and religious fervor).

This on-going search for love is just that, however; one's search for oneself through some representation as believed can be found in another's heart and mind.  And in the highest sense, we 'are' love.  And this is true.  But presently, now, in the worlds of relativity, we are ever in search of our other halves till such time as we are finished here and the Universes 'cut' new orders that we are now suited to go PCS for return Home again.

But until then, we strike out upon the long, arduous journey to ever seek love in the embrace and arms of a significant other -- be this as it may.

And so this is just the way it is for now -- not for all but for most of us here.

Answer 5

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. "

Buddha

Answer 6

We are longing for ourselves in a wrong direction.

Answer 7

Every opportunity i have to express love is a celebration of joyful participation in what i (and the "seeming" other) already am.  It is as though that Love is the gift and talent that must push through from the internal to the external...much like a natural musician MUST express the music pouring through him or her.  Then, with this in mind, i would say that Love is longing to express Itself.

i am Sirius

Answer 8

Yes, our original state itself is love. We are born out of love and sustained by it always . Yet, there  is a cover if ignorance of this fact by the ego. When an external factor pears through this cover and triggers the inner love that exist already we mistakenly attribute to the other and long for it! Be grateful to the other for the trigger, period!  There is no need to long for ourselves either, we are ever in it only!

Answer 9

my outside is the lake or the woods

Answer 10

we dont realize what love is, that it is us, and all around us. we think love is something that we find, not something that we are. the ego tells you that love must be attached to a thing, it doesnt know that love already just is. knowing that love is in all of life makes you feel whole. you cant feel lonely because there is nothing separate from you. only the ego will tell you that there is, and your senses will seem to confirm it.

Answer 11

We are Love, or the expression of Divine Love. But we have separated ourselves from the Source of our expression, & each feels this place inside where something should be & is not. Most will seek outside themselves in relationships, appetites, & stuff to fill this hole inside, this missing connection we instinctively feel should be there. Many times we think that the next new relationship, new thing, or new idea is the thing that will "save" us. But it just never seems to quite do it or last, so we begin the search again. We try to use outside stuff to fill a God size hole.

What we long for is the intimate connection with our "Beloved", our Source. We literally are looking for the source of our love, our being, in all the wrong places. Until we can begin to reconnect with that which is the Source of our Love & being we can not understand either or even Be them completely.

Blessings!

Answer 12

maybe you're longing for love outside yourself because you don't know or understand yourself, and/or you just don't love yourself.

(general "you", not YOU. lol)

Answer 13

There is no any other questions. You hit a point.

Answer 14

You must understand and refine the definition of love in the statement "we are love".  Then you might be able to distinguish that love from the love that one typically seeks outside.