Does Love Conquer All?

"All you need is love" perhaps epitomizes the thousands of songs, movies, plays, books, articles, etc. which share the common theme that with love, anything is possible.
Believing in this message or wanting desperately to believe this message is true, we seek love, we strive to find a mate, someone to fill the loneliness, provide us with shelter from the storm, and give us the strength to move mountains.
The question is: for those who succeed at finding love, does the attainment enable them to transcend the lack and limitations in their lives? Does love conquer all? For some, perhaps. For most, I think not.
It seems to me, for the most part, love can't even keep us together let alone help us solve our problems. That's because we've been looking for love under the wrong bushel basket. We need to look within.
I'm not suggesting people put a halt to their quest for loving companions. I'm suggesting that finding one is the icing on the cake. First we must bake the cake. First we must appreciate that there is a fountain of infinite love inside each of us that we are unaware of, that we are blocking our own access to, that is connected to the limitless abundance of the universe.
We unconsciously block our access to the truth of what we are, Love and nothing else, because of deeply-embedded guilt, shame and, above all, fear, which are generated by our ego.
While our ego distracts us and consumes us with chasing love in the guise of one person, one body after another, we avoid the true path to our Love and its creative power, which is to extend compassion, acceptance and forgiveness to others unconditionally, no exceptions, no special circumstances.
As we stop finding fault with others, as we stop being rigid and judgmental, as we choose to be more sympathetic, empathetic and understanding, as we give and share all of our emotional, physical, material and spiritual assets with others unconditionally, without any need of acknowledgment or reward of any kind, the Light of our Love inside of us will shine brighter and brighter.
The more we engage in these behaviors of loving others in order to connect with the infinite power of love inside ourselves, the more we will manifest growth, healing, recovery, creativity and prosperity in our lives beyond our wildest dreams.
We don't need love. We are Love. Hold that thought.

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