Why do I need love if I am love itself?

[ladelle]

As a human, I still have this feeling of lack, that I need love from an external source. I’m wondering why. It seems that God want to experience lack, which would mean that as a human I can never be fulfilled, I can experience fulfillment only when I’m God, my human self will never be satisfied because it is supposed to experience limitation. The only way to be whole is to be God.

[Yimpa]

I struggle with this as well. As long as you’re alive as a human you will need the connection of others to survive long-term. I have PM’d you with additional thoughts about this as well.

[Jirh]

You need a mirror to see yourself, to know and appreciate and love who you are.

More mirrors means more angles and ways of looking at yourself.

And it's not a defect. This very mechanism allows us to complement one another.

As mirrors, we create reality.

Edited Sunday at 06:04 PM by Jirh

[Willy Phallicus]

14 hours ago, ladelle said:

I still have this feeling of lack, that I need love from an external source. I’m wondering why. 

You haven't given it to yourself yet.

14 hours ago, ladelle said:

 It seems that God want to experience lack, which would mean that as a human I can never be fulfilled

If this is the story God is telling himself that's what God will experience.  Through you.

14 hours ago, ladelle said:

I can experience fulfillment only when I’m God, my human self will never be satisfied because it is supposed to experience limitation.

Flip the script.  God wants humanity in abundance and joy.  Which is why every human gets to choose what that is for them when they figure out they're the savior in their own sad, little story.  Take your power back Lord and reshape the world in your image.

14 hours ago, ladelle said:

The only way to be whole is to be God.

God can never not be whole be it through the eyes of a human or through the eyes of Christ.  You're good with one but forgot the other.  Thats by design but you can override the Matrix and become Neo.  Best of both worlds.

[Inliytened1]

17 hours ago, ladelle said:

As a human, I still have this feeling of lack, that I need love from an external source. 

Your human don't be too hard on yourself.  You are not in a state of God Consciousnessm. You're in duality as a self with other. So it's OK but realize that you don't need external sources to complete you.  You're already whole. 

Edited Sunday at 08:44 PM by Inliytened1

[kavaris]

I think you fundamentally are separation, merging w/ Love, so idealistic is the love you want, ya know? isnt it fundamental?

[Yimpa]

2 hours ago, kavaris said:

I think you fundamentally are separation, merging w/ Love

No. You are God imagining desperation and separation.

[Leo Gura]

23 hours ago, ladelle said:

I’m wondering why.

Because you are not fully Awake.

Also because you have unsatisfied desires and needs. You don't need it, but you crave it.

That's what they call karma or samskaras.

This is a classic Buddhist sort of issue. Buddhism is designed to eliminate craving. Kriya yoga eliminates craving even better.

Edited Monday at 03:30 AM by Leo Gura

[gettoefl]

I kid myself I need love since I bought into every other aspect of this dream so why not love. I need to get up tomorrow right? So why not satisfy the love itch too. Everyone needs love or so everyone kids themself. So why not me! I am not that bad a person. And I am a hell of a good dancer.

[Yimpa]

Letting go is not about putting an end to experience.  It is being fully here and now with your experience. Right here and right now! The human is not doing Love. The Love is doing You!

So Surrender to Love and let it keep doing you until you explode into Infinity Love. 

Love is imagining Everything.

Edited Monday at 05:46 PM by Yimpa

[Breakingthewall]

Because you are a human being designed by millions of years of evolution to be a social creature, interacting with other humans is an essential part of who you are. For instance, if you were locked in a dark, 2-by-1-meter room for three years, you would suffer, wouldn't you? It wouldn't matter how much of a Buddhist you were.

Buddhists say you must eliminate desires to avoid further reincarnation, but that is something they simply made up. It is like saying, for example, that prisoners must be sacrificed to appease the gods, just made-up religious ideas.

[Yimpa]

Forget being a human. That’s outdated technology. Let’s go Alien Mind.

You can still communicate with others, but it won’t be the same.

Edited 23 hours ago by Yimpa

[LastThursday]

Short poetry:

I couldn't love myself

So I looked somewhere else

But it wasn't good enough

Never quite right

However hard I looked

Despair was easier

Self-love is harder

I am whole

[yetineti]

To love is to understand; to understand is to love.

 

 

[Mellowmarsh]

On 04/10/2026 at 4:43 AM, ladelle said:

As a human, I still have this feeling of lack, that I need love from an external source.

You need the external source because it’s your inner world pushed out. It’s all you desiring yourself through the two way mirror effect.