Self-Realization is realizing that we, ourselves, are Love itself.

We, Our True Selves, we are Love Itself. The secret of being happy is self-realization. Self-Realization is realizing that we, ourselves, are Love itself. This happens when we are; we always have been, and we always will be, first and foremost Love and that Life is an expression of this Love. We are Love experiencing ourselves in our manifest form, which we, humanity, have defined as this abstraction called Life. Life, however, is Love manifesting itself. What it means is that Love is cause and Life the effect. This perception we have of Life is primarily an effect of our underlying reality, which is Love that creates and upholds Life. We are not just the effect, but we are the underlying reality of Love, which causes the effect. In other words; Love is us and Life is a perception of this reality. Love is Us as We Are. We are Love itself experiencing Life. And, we are always in a state of Love regardless of the form in which Love is expressed.
~ Wald Wassermann