The entire article is effervescing with passion! Great read, I devoured it wholeheartedly.
I tell you, there was a time when I truly had occasional sighs of relief that "Nothing can ever happen", and how cool it is that we have always been having everything we need to heal ourselves WITHIN. How great that we only need to "fix" ourselves and have all means to do so within for good!
Many of us are stuck in the 'victim, perpetrator, rescuer' dance, which eventually wears thin, as each is an attempt to make the illusion real.
It is not necessarily about deserving Love. We ARE Love. Very much like your spoon metaphor, we search for Love, having forgotten that WE ARE Love. How could we possibly find outside ourselves?
How did the Buddhists say? "The Universe is all mind stuff"