“Your Daily Dose” is a quick two minute read packed with bite-sized wisdom from all the great teachers. But you could also choose to turn it into something more… a powerful daily practice for personal growth. Give it a try!
A message from today’s meditation:
As always, the theme of our Friday meditation is love. A topic that is literally close to our hearts, yet, can also feel so far out of reach
We can easily spend our lives searching for love in all the wrong places – trying to find love in relationships, achievements, possessions – convinced that the right person or circumstance will finally make us feel complete. But what if everything we’ve been taught about love has missed the most essential truth? That completeness is not something that’s added from the outside, but fulfilled from within.
Eckhart Tolle offers a very simple perspective that cuts through centuries of cultural conditioning around love. He reveals that we experience love from two fundamentally different places: our ego or our soul. Understanding this distinction changes everything.
“To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.” – Eckhart Tolle
Loving from our Ego equals wanting, needing, a desire to possess, to become somehow more by adding something from the outside. And so what “falling in love” often really means, is that my Ego’s “wanting” has become even bigger!
Whereas getting beyond our ego, we experience that love is the default state of our Soul.
“Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it and it can never leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.” – Eckhart Tolle
You might have heard questions and answers that try to explore love by describing what the opposite of love is… is hate the opposite of love? Is it apathy? Or maybe fear?
“True love has no opposite. If your love has an opposite it is not love, but a strong ego.” – Eckhart Tolle
Love doesn’t have an opposite. Love just IS! And what is all-encompassing can have no opposite…
But even though you can never lose love and it can never leave you, you can absolutely feel disconnected from the love that is “somewhere” inside of you. And being disconnected from love can certainly feel like hate, and apathy, and… fear. Definitely FEAR. Feeling disconnected from love is a scary place to be and then, is it any wonder the lengths that people will go to in order to try and reach for something or someone to try and feel connected to love again?
“Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.” – Eckhart Tolle
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.” – Eckhart Tolle
These last three quotes speak of a deep experience of SELF. A deep knowing of SELF and then recognizing that what I have found in SELF, I am finding EVERYWHERE!
Isn’t it just so clear and so simple?
What you have been looking for, IS the one who’s looking! You ARE the love you have been seeking and when you truly get this… you will be IN LOVE (in a state of love) with everyone and everything around you.
A few guiding mantras to step into your radiant truth:
- “I am not seeking love; I am recognizing the love I already am.”
- “My wholeness is not dependent on any external person or circumstance.”
- “When I see clearly, I recognize myself in all beings and love flows naturally.”
Have a BEAUTIFUL Friday!
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Sharing love.
Today’s LIVE meditation
https://youtu.be/NOLvKEySW9c 2026
https://youtu.be/cI8Z7gJ7lSA 2025
https://youtu.be/1MuyuYvU06o 2024
https://youtu.be/htXpWXpQc_Y 2023
Practice the “Daily Dose”
Let’s put it into practice! Choose what works for you – daily, once a week or whenever inspiration strikes. Putting pen to paper wires the neural pathways that will create your new habits.
1 – Affirmation
Write down your favourite affirmation on a sticky note and place it somewhere that you’ll be able to see it the whole day.
- “I am not seeking love; I am recognizing the love I already am.”
- “My wholeness is not dependent on any external person or circumstance.”
- “When I see clearly, I recognize myself in all beings and love flows naturally.”
2 – A moment of reflection
Use today’s question as a journal prompt. If you don’t have the time to sit down and write, just take a moment to reflect on your response.
Recognizing Yourself in Others: Think of someone you find difficult to love or connect with. What aspects of yourself – perhaps ones you’ve rejected or denied – might you be seeing reflected in this person? How does the idea that “to love is to recognize yourself in another” change your perception of this relationship? What would it mean to see your own essence in them?
3 – Quotes to share
Send a quote to someone who needs it, or share them all on social media to spread the good vibes!
4 – Q&A for deeper learning
Read through the questions and answers and write down at least one “aha moment” that clicked for you.
Q1. What’s the difference between ego-based love and soul-based love?
Ego-based love is rooted in wanting, needing, and possessing. It seeks to gain something external to feel complete and often comes with conditions, expectations, and fear of loss. Soul-based love, on the other hand, recognizes that love is already your natural state. It requires nothing from others, has no desire to control or change anyone, and exists as a state of being rather than a transaction. Ego love asks “what can you give me?” while soul love simply radiates from wholeness.
Q2. If love has no opposite, why do I experience hate, fear, and apathy?
Love itself has no opposite because it’s all-encompassing and always present within you. However, you can feel disconnected from your inner love, and that disconnection manifests as negative emotions like hate, fear, and apathy. These aren’t true opposites of love but rather symptoms of being cut off from your natural loving state. Think of it like clouds covering the sun—the sun is always there, but you temporarily can’t see or feel it.
Q3. How can I tell if I’m “falling in love” or if it’s just my ego wanting something?
Ask yourself honest questions: Do I feel incomplete without this person? Am I trying to get them to fulfill certain needs or expectations? Do I want them to change in specific ways? Am I afraid of losing them because I believe they’re the source of my happiness? If you answer yes to these, your ego is likely driving the experience. True love feels spacious, allowing, and complete in itself—it enhances your existing wholeness rather than trying to fill a perceived void.
Q4. Does this mean I shouldn’t want anything in my relationships?
This teaching isn’t about eliminating healthy preferences or becoming passive in relationships. It’s about recognizing the difference between the ego’s desperate wanting (which comes from a sense of lack) and preferences that arise from wholeness. When you’re grounded in your own completeness, you can still desire companionship, partnership, and connection—but from a place of sharing love rather than extracting it. The key is that your wellbeing and sense of self aren’t dependent on getting what you want.
Q5. How do I access the love that’s supposedly already within me?
The path to inner love begins with self-acceptance—learning, in small steps, to embrace the imperfect human you are. If you can’t look at yourself in the mirror and find at least some softness for the image staring back at you, you’ll always struggle to feel connected to love. Start exactly where you are. Can you accept your messy hair, your tired eyes, your flawed body? Can you extend compassion to your mistakes, your regrets, your humanness? You don’t have to love everything about yourself immediately, but you do need to stop the constant war against who you are. Practice speaking to yourself the way you’d speak to a dear friend going through a hard time. Notice one thing you can appreciate about yourself each day, however small. As you gradually soften toward your own imperfections, judgments, and struggles, you create space for love to emerge naturally. Self-acceptance doesn’t mean giving up on growth—it means recognizing that you’re worthy of love right now, exactly as you are, not someday when you finally fix everything about yourself.
Q6. What does “recognizing yourself in another” actually mean in practice?
This means seeing beyond the surface-level differences and personality traits to recognize the same essential consciousness in others that exists in you. When you connect with your own deepest self, you begin to perceive that same essence in everyone else, regardless of their behavior, appearance, or circumstances. It’s the recognition that beneath all our individual stories and conditioning, we share the same fundamental being. This recognition naturally gives rise to compassion and connection.
Q7. If I’m already love, why do my relationships still feel difficult?
Knowing intellectually that you are love and actually experiencing yourself as love are two different things. Most of us still operate primarily from ego patterns built over a lifetime, even when we understand these concepts. Relationships trigger our deepest wounds, fears, and unmet needs, pulling us back into ego-based ways of relating. The path involves gradually recognizing these patterns as they arise and returning again and again to your true nature. Difficult relationships become opportunities for this awakening rather than evidence that you’re doing something wrong.