Bidden or unbidden, God suddenly appears, and mind suddenly stares into the void and sees. There is a light of recognition that shines deep within that suddenly appears at the end of the tunnel of darkness. When you empty your mind in meditation, welcoming the darkness, you suddenly see there is something still there. It is the “I” of the “I am therefore I exist”. It is that which is aware, you know yourself. Being “aware” is existence, how we came into existence. Love is being aware of another, a pure flash of consciousness, the “big bang” of creation itself. Creation emerges from within. You don’t find love, it is in you all the time. This is what Augustine of Hippo (354-430) meant when he wrote: “Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.” 
“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.” – ― Rumi