Your task is not to seek for love

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Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it.

Then when you see what is around you as
not other-than-you, and all and everything as
the existence of the One; 

when you do not see anything else
with Him or in him; 

but see Him in everything as yourself and
at the same time as the nonexistence
of yourself; 

then what you see is the truth.

~ Ibn Arabi