The One Thing We're All Searching For

Sonnets are written about this beautiful but complicated experience.

Writers and poets spend their entire lives exploring this topic.

We’re surrounded by it, yet, we almost always feel its void in some way.

Love - a word so expansive, there’s no definition to comprise it.

Our very first experience of love is before we’re even born, through our mother. As we enter this planet, we learn immediate relationships like mother, father, brother, sister, anyone else in our family. We seek love outside our home in friends and a lover perhaps. Beneath all our achievements and success, what we’re truly searching for is a glimmer of love, compassion and kindness to feel. Why is it so?

When we discover love for someone or something, that instantly evokes a sense of security, like everything’s right in the world. It’s the best feeling. And equally, when we experience the opposite of love, it bothers us. Human beings seek ‘Love’ as they either experience being starved of ‘love’ or are committed to the pursuit of something that they have defined as ‘love.’ So, what we can attempt to do is discover love as what it means for most of us and what it is for us.

If you want to experience the possibility of “Discovering Love” in every area of your life, you can join Victor Manickam’s Knowledge Series on ‘Discovering Love’, this Saturday 21st March, 2026.