love

InnerSelf.com - Daily Inspiration:All of us truly want to be in love, for love is our natural state -- literally who we are. The question is not, "Should we love?" but "Where will we find the love we desire?" If we decide that another person is the source of our love, we set ourself up for a roller coaster ride of heady ecstasy followed by painful frustration. Sometimes our partner will do things that make us feel loved, and sometimes he or she will do things that make us feel unloved. But as long as anything she or he does can make us feel one way or another, we have set ourselves up for a fall; we have given our power away in a most unkind (to ourselves) way, and we become little more than a yo-yo on the string of life.There is another way to love, far more magnificent, real, and rewarding. This way finds the source of our love, power, and life within us. This way teaches that our purpose is not to import love, but to express it. Instead of being a love seeker, we become a love finder. We do not wait for love -- we generate it.