Stop waiting for love and approval from outside yourself. Instead, give to your partner, children, and the world the love you never received. That act of giving is your purpose, and it fills the emptiness inside you.
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Your liberation is when you stop searching for love, for acknowledgment, for approval, for a pat on the back. You stop looking towards God, towards work for that fulfillment, and instead you look your lover, your children, and the world, and even God in the eyes and say, I'm gonna love you in the way that I was never loved. I'm going to give you that love and that presence through the hole in my heart, and as a result, the hole will vanish. Part of your work in the world here is to give the love that you were denied, because only you know what it— knows what it feels like to not have it. And giving that love through your consciousness becomes your highest purpose, of the highest meaning, of the highest significance, because on your deathbed and on theirs, that's the thing that's left the deepest mark. Is the quality of your loving presence.