Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.

Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.