Love Begins with Receiving
You are capable of deep, expansive love—right now, exactly as you are.
This kind of love doesn’t have to be earned, proven, or perfected. It doesn’t come from willpower or trying harder. It arises when we finally trust that we are already held in a love larger than our own. When we stop striving and start receiving, something shifts. The love we were searching for outside ourselves is revealed to be within us, flowing freely, without demand or condition.
So many of us were taught to love others by ignoring ourselves. But it’s not selfless to disregard our own worth. In fact, the ability to truly care for another comes from being rooted in the truth that we are already loved. That’s the foundation. Love that includes us is not selfish; it’s authentic. When we receive this love, something in us softens and opens. From that space, we can extend compassion outward—not as a task, but as a natural overflow.
Real love—lasting love—is not a performance. It’s not dependent on mood or merit. It’s an awakening. The same love that allows us to cherish a friend, comfort a child, or forgive an enemy is the love that flows through us when we remember that we are not alone and never have been. This is not about perfection. It’s about connection.
You don’t have to force love. You don’t have to fabricate it. Just return to what’s already true: you are loved, now and always. And from that truth, you can love others not in pieces, but as part of the same whole.
Let that knowing live in you today. Let it speak through your actions. Let it widen your heart.
It can be exhausting to try to love from a place of emptiness.
Maybe you’ve felt it—the strain of trying to forgive someone when you’re still carrying unhealed pain. Or the pressure to show compassion when you feel unseen, misunderstood, or disconnected. In those moments, love can feel like a demand rather than a gift.
And still, there is something in us that longs to love fully, freely, without resentment or fear. This longing is not a failure. It is a sign of our truest nature seeking expression. But when we try to love by force—through duty or discipline alone—we cut ourselves off from the deeper Source that makes love possible. We end up depleted, confused, or bitter.
Here’s the turning point: Love is not something we generate. It is something we join.
When we allow ourselves to receive love—when we let ourselves be seen, held, and cared for by a Presence greater than us—then we begin to realize we were never meant to love on our own. We were meant to participate in something eternal and shared. And the love that comes from that place doesn’t burn out. It doesn’t collapse under pressure. It expands even in difficulty.
This changes everything. Love becomes less about trying to meet expectations and more about remembering what’s already true. The Source of all love is already within us. We are branches connected to something vast and life-giving. We don’t have to figure it out alone. We simply need to stay connected.
When love feels hard, it’s not a sign you’re failing. It’s a signal to return to that connection. To pause. To rest in what sustains you. Then, in time, you will love again—not out of duty, but out of being aligned with what is most real in you.
Let love become the practice of staying connected. Not striving. Not proving. Just returning.
Deeper Reflection:
What might change in your life if you stopped trying to generate love and instead received it as something that already includes you?
Heart of the Message:
Our capacity to love others is grounded in receiving and abiding in Divine love. We can only love others fully when we first receive the truth that we are already loved; authentic love flows not from our own effort, but from being connected to the Source of love itself.
To love
is not to strain,
but to surrender.
Not to achieve,
but to remember.
You are already part
of the Great Love
that breathes you
into being.
Stay close to that.
Let it hold you
until love
is not what you do—
but what you are.
So true and so refreshing!! Thank you!