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10 – Power of Love

"It is rewarding to find someone you love, but it is essential to love yourself.
It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being,
But it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable.
It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love,
But it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.
For you cannot live in someone else. You cannot find yourself in someone else.
You cannot be given a life by someone else. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
To the question of your life, you are the only answer.
To the problems of your life, you are the only solution."

As part of the research for writing this chapter, when I typed the word “love” into a search engine on the internet, it brought 15,430,000,000 results. There is
an enormous amount of material available out there about love, a lot of it contradictory. Quite possibly, there is more written about this subject than any other
on the planet. With all that information at our disposal you would be forgiven for thinking that by this stage of our human development, we would have
conquered the mysteries of love. Thankfully that will never happen and it is the very fact that love remains a mystery to most of us, that gives love its eternal
appeal.

Having spent many years studying the experience of happiness, I found that the information I gathered, from my own thoughts and those of others, ran into
tens of thousands of pages of notes and research, enough to write a least one book on each of the chapters. Love was by far and away the most fascinating and
infinite subject of them all.

Everything you will ever read about happiness and the meaning of life has its basis in love. Love colours every other area of your life. The degree to
which you embrace and give love in your life will determine the levels of happiness you will experience. For that reason, I make no apology that this Page342
chapter on love is the most comprehensive in the project.