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Unveiling the True Nature of Love: A Radical Rethink from Heavenletters

We spend our lives searching for love, defining it by grand gestures, passionate encounters, or the comfortable familiarity of companionship. We crave it, chase it, and sometimes, mourn its perceived absence. But what if our fundamental understanding of love has been, well, a little off? A recent re-read of a Heavenletter titled “About Love,” originally published on March 24, 2001, offers a profound, almost radical perspective that challenges our conventional notions and invites us to look inward, not outward.

The letter, attributed to God, begins with a startlingly simple yet deeply transformative idea: “About love, the thing is that you love.” It asserts that love isn’t something we get or give based on external factors like appearance, actions, or even the presence of another person. Instead, love is an intrinsic state of being. You don’t love John or Mary; you are the lover who loves. They simply receive the light of your inherent love. This reframes love from an external transaction to an internal emanation, an undeniable current flowing from your very core. “You are loveness itself,” the letter declares, flipping our object-oriented view of affection on its head. Love doesn’t need an object to exist; it simply is, radiating from within us, illuminating everything it touches.

To further clarify, the Heavenletter sharply distinguishes true love from fleeting emotions. We often mistake intense feelings, infatuation, or even deep affection for love itself. However, as the message points out, “emotions emote,” meaning they come and go, rise and fall. True love, in this context, is not a passing sentiment but a constant, underlying faculty, much like our sense of hearing. Just as our ears are vehicles for sound, and we are the constant hearer regardless of the music, our being is the vehicle for love, and we are its constant source. “Your hearing is your hearing. You hear,” illustrates how love is an unwavering aspect of who we are, independent of the ‘sounds’ (or objects) it encounters.

Perhaps the most poetic and poignant analogy offered is that of a rose: “I planted love on earth, and you are the plant.” A rose doesn’t try to be a rose; it simply is. Its “rose-ness is irrevocable.” There’s no effort involved in its essence. The letter suggests that our struggles, our efforts, our very denial of who we are, stem from denying this inherent love. We’re told to “love yourself” or “to thine own self be true,” but a rose doesn’t need such reminders. It knows nothing but its own truth. Humans, however, have “wandered off from their truth,” identifying with superficial labels like ‘smart,’ ‘clever,’ ‘mean,’ or ‘poor,’ rather than the profound ‘truth’ of being love itself. These labels become “facades” that obscure our radiant core.

The Heavenletter isn’t just an explanation; it’s a powerful invitation to “return Home” to our true self. It’s a call to drop the “game of denial” and embrace the glorious reality that “You are My love on earth.” Imagine the profound shift that occurs when we internalize this – when we understand that our core identity is love, not something externally sought or earned. Even “1% of that thought” can dramatically alter our lives, transforming them into “an altar to truth.” It’s about remembering who we are, consciously allowing ourselves to “be what I planted.” It’s an invitation to drop the effort of proving, striving, and seeking, and simply be the boundless, unconditional love that resides within.

This Heavenletter offers a profound spiritual insight: love isn’t a commodity to be traded or an emotion to be chased. It is the fundamental fabric of our being, a constant emanation from within us. To truly understand this is to unlock an inexhaustible source of joy, peace, and connection. It’s an invitation to shed all that we are not and simply be the love we inherently are. What if, today, we dared to let go of the external search and simply recognized the truth of who we already are?

[Reference]:

About Love | Heavenletters

Apr 13 2026

God said:

About love, the thing is that you love. You love, not dependent on what someone says or does or looks, but because you love. You love. Those two simple words. You don’t love John or Mary. You love. John or Mary may be in front of you or out of sight, and they receive the light of your love, but you are the lover who loves. You, who are love, loves. It is you who loves. You might as well know that you love.

This is a major point because you think love comes from somewhere, like from an object. Love doesn’t need an object. Love falls from your eye, and wherever it falls, it is your love falling there. You do not take love to you. You who are love emanate it. Other’s light may also shine on you, but the truth is that is your same love reflected onto you. All of love is a reflection of My love.

You are loveness itself.

Love is not at all what you thought. You called a passing emotion love, but that was an emotion. Emotions emote. They go away from you. They come out, and then they move.

Love is like hearing. Your ear is the vehicle, but you are the hearer. You hear many things, many you like, some you don’t, but through it all, you are the hearer. No matter what the music, you are the hearer. You are the s****r of sound. Passing sounds come to you, but your hearing is your hearing. You hear.

That you are love is like that. You are like My vehicle for love. You are that. You are nothing but that.

I planted love on earth, and you are the plant.

Because you are love, it is not something you do. You are it.

A rose doesn’t perform as a rose. There is no effort in being a rose. A rose is a rose no matter who comes near it. Its rose-ness is irrevocable. It would be effortful for a rose to deny its rosiness.

And all your effort in life is denial of the love that you are.

It is not someone else’s love that you need to accept. It is your own.

“Love yourself.” “To thine own self be true.” No one has to tell a rose that. A rose knows nothing but to be what it already is.

But Human beings need to be reminded because they have wandered off from their truth which is the same as wandering off from themselves. It is time for you to be the truth you are. You are true love. You are your own true love, and everybody else’s as well. You are true love.

That is not a front. That is the core. You who are love have decided that you are something else. It doesn’t matter what. Anything else is less.

Regardless, you are what you are. You have played a game with yourself and given yourself other names, like smart or clever or kind or mean or rich or poor. The name of the game is denial. All your wanderings are denial.

Now it is time to return Home to your true self. Have an inkling of who you are. You are My love on earth. Love you are, and to love you will return.

Let the light of that thought in. Let in 1%, and your life is changed. Oh, how your life is changed. My love, what can you be but My love?

So then be it. Be it. Drop away your facades. They are less than what you are.

Accept truth, and watch your life become an altar to truth. Remember who you are, and allow yourself to be what I planted.

Heavenletter #146 Published on: March 24, 2001

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