Is there Love in this world?

A friend wrote to me on email: 
Did you read my short story?

I replied to him as follows:
I deleted WhatsApp and forgot to download it.
You can share it here.
But as I could make out it was a love story.
But as I can tell from my experience, and as even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad pointed out (https://www.prekshaa.in/relationships-and-upanishad), we love only ourselves and not another person, be that other person one’s own parent, sibling, wife, child or friend.
But, we cannot admit this psychological fact to ousleves because if we do, we have to face the existential loneliness, and that scares us.
We would rather believe in the illusion of love in this world of duality.
Strangely though, it is only when we face up to this fact and stop seeking love in this world of duality will we find true love, and that love as far as I can tell is our own nature as Oneness where there is no ‘other’.
The ‘other’ will keep appearing to be real as long as we operate with our mind in this world.
How to transcend the mind and this illusion?
The way out of the mind and illusion will appear when you truly and deeply long to find a way out of this duality.
Read what Nisargadatta Maharaj says: “Be true to your own self, love your self absolutely. Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realised them as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don’t pretend to be what you are not, don’t refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause. Without self-realisation, no virtue is genuine. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realise the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection. But when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation causes fear and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only self-realisation can break it. Go for it resolutely.” (from I Am That, 46. Awareness of Being is Bliss)