Where O Where Is Love?

You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself.  There is within each of us, at the soul level, an enriching fountain of love.  In other words, you do not have to go outside yourself to know what love is.  This is not selfishness, and it is not narcissism, they are negative obsessions with the need to be loved.  Rather this is the wellspring of love within the heart.

                                                                                John O’Donohue, Anam Cara, p.26

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where, O where is love?

Is it out there, somewhere?

Is there a soul mate, waiting to complete us?

Or is love to be found

first, within

is it to be found

first

at the center of who we are?

love is the language of the soul

it is the antidote to nothingness

there is a wellspring of love within us

we need to awaken it

we need to create space in our souls

so that the nourishing stream

of Sacred Love

Sacred Presence

might flow

through the arid earth

of our

lives