WHY AM I AFRAID TO LOVE?

Throughout life, we have this greatest craving of being loved. But the paradox is
this: if we seek to fill the void of our own loneliness in seeking iove from others, we wiil inevitably find no consolation but oniy a deeper desolation.

It is true that you're nobody till somebody loves you. Only the person who has experienced true love is capable of growing, and of maturing. If however a person seeks not to receive love, but rather to give it, he will become lovable and he will most certainly be loved in the end.

The only way we can do this is to stop being concerned with ourselves. Loving others can be truly accomplished only when the focus of our minds and the happiest object of our desires is another when all our activity results from concern for another and not for ourselves.

But how can we love if we have never been loved"?

All of us have some capacity to love, some ability to move the focus of our minds out from ourselves to the needs, happiness, and fulfillment of others. To the extent that we do this; to the extent that we actualize this potential that is latent within us, we will be loved. Even if at the beginning we can love only a little, we shall be loved a little, and the love that we receive will empower us to grow more reai and more of our true selves in the direction that love leads.
To love, one must have enormous motivation... Motivation towards goodness of humanity, since love, which of its essence seeks only the good of others, and is willing to pay the high price of self-forgetfulness...

Love never ends... It is a long and hard road we have rarely explored: it is an altar of sacrifice; It asks an enormous amount of self-forgetfulness and not pride...
Love is the only real meaning to our human destiny and to the feet of the Almighty, who loveS.