I value the inspiration from the community. It makes me look at things from a different angle. Also, I feel encouraged to go deeper into a topic. Lately, I shared the quote above. I intended to look at the phrasing of the first sentence literally. This intention is revealed in the second sentence.

I expected that one would raise eyebrows at first sight since we usually use the term “give love.” But is this really possible? It could be a saying we use out of habit. We say it without really thinking about it. If I give you 10 Dollars, you have 10 more, while I have 10 less. When I give something away, I have less, right? But when I “give” love, I don’t have less love in me. At the same time, the other person doesn’t necessarily have more love.

Another example is relationships. Some people seem to always attract toxic people. What they are looking for is love, and here we go. Some who lack love try to find that love outside of themselves. They look out for people who fill that void. But what they get is only who they are. Like attracts like, and they attract people who lack the same. Now, they either put the others under pressure to find what they are looking for so desperately. Or they end up getting abused because that other person sees their desperation. They see that the other one is willing to give everything to get love in return. Maybe that does not happen on purpose, but in the end, both end up empty and frustrated.

The reason is that we can’t literally give love. What we can do is apply our love. Acting from a place of love and, hence, vibrating love. And the more open the other person is, the more that love gets reflected. Love is who we are, regardless of whether we forget, deny, feel, or don’t feel it. The core of every being is love. Love is life’s essence. So, whatever being we meet must be love, or it could not be alive. Our being is eternal and immortal. That’s why we can’t “share” it or give something of it away. We can only expand that love inside of us. And that is the crucial difference.

When we say we give or share love, the counterpart can’t take that love to have more of it. As little as love can be given, as little it can be taken. The effect of vibrating love is that the other person discovers that place inside of themselves. They dust it off and let it glow. They are becoming conscious again of the love they are and vibrate it themselves. The more conscious we are, the more we let our love shine. The more love we feel, the more we vibrate again. Through it, we become more conscious, and so on.

Of course, I will still use the term “give love,” and everybody understands what I mean. But love only happens inside. Everything outside works only as a reminder through words and deeds from that divine source. Sometimes, the source works through cuddles, and sometimes through pushing us against a wall. Everything helps to make us reveal who we really are.

We can‘t give love to others so they can have more of it.
Everyone can only generate more love in themselves to have more of it.
But we can shine love on others
to make them recognize there’s love around them
and their love in themselves.

At least, I think so.

In Love and Light