What is Love?

In my quest to find out how to love myself, I was faced with the question of "What is love?" If you want to love something or someone, what is it, exactly, that you are doing? What is the essence of love? What is the difference between true love and false love? This is my answer, always evolving--what I know today...

• Love is the mystery element that holds the universe in place.
• Love is everything, both visible and invisible.
• Love cannot be held, horded, bought or traded.
• Love cannot be manufactured.
• Love cannot be given or received, it just is.
• Love flows where love is.
• Love is.
• Love is light in the darkness.
• Love is eternal, infinite and timeless.
• Love is misunderstood.
• We are love, each of us.
• Our essence is divine love.
• Love is perfect; our essence is perfect.
• Love can hide in plain sight.
• You can see through love.
• Love never dies.
• Love fills and completes.
• Love is necessary.
• God is love.
• Love cannot be divided.
• Love is black and white.
• Love for one is love for all.
• You don't have to love yourself, you are love.
• You don't have to love yourself, you must wake up to the truth that you ARE Love.
• Love does not compete or compare.
• Love is not longing--love is fullness.
• Love finishes.
• Love is loyal, consistent, trustworthy, true.
• Love is patient, kind, forgiving.
• Love heals the soul.
• Abandoning yourself is removal from your source of love.
• Your source is love.
• You are love.
• The answer is love.
• You seek love that you already are.
• When you find love, you find yourself.
• The love you seek, you already have... you are love.
  
• Love is the answer.
• Love protects and provides. 
• Love nourishes, feeds and delivers.
• Love is eternal.
• Love is for you.
• A drop of love is the same as an ocean of love. 
• Love cannot be measured.
• Love is boundless.
• Love is open.
• Love encourages, blesses, benefits, adds.
• You cannot add to love, you can only uncover the truth of love.*
• Love has nothing to prove, except for itself.
• You cannot add to love, you can only uncover it.
• You cannot add to love, you can only remove the barriers to seeing it.
• Love comes only from within.
• Nothing outside of you can give you the love you need if you don't already know love inside.
• Love is wild and untame.
• Love has no agenda.
• Love is the truth.
• Love = Truth
• Love is reality.
• Love is committed.
• Love is bigger than we realize.
• Love is incredible.  
• It is impossible to "get" love, it is only possible to recognize that you already have it.
• No getting of love will last.
• The world is blind to the true essence within each of us--LOVE.
• Loving yourself means you know yourself.
• To know you is to love you because you are love.
•  Lies you believe eclipse the love that you are.
• Love is a verb, noun, adverb -- Love is everything.
• Love affirms and accepts. 

*Still testing these hypothesis. 

Loving oneself is about knowing that you exist as a manifestation of Pure Love. Denial of your true nature is denial of reality that causes pain, depression, epidemics and addiction.

A parents job is to raise their children to know that they are love; to mirror their identity, which is Pure Love, so that the child knows who he or she is and knows they are divine.

The problem of man is not lack of love, but lack of recognition of what is already inside, the stuff that we are each made of--the world is made of--the universe, existence. Life itself is LOVE.