Iris Murdoch said, “We can only learn to love by loving.” What is Creator’s perspective?

Here again is wisdom on the wing. This is a recognition that one must be taught how to love by being shown love, by experiencing it personally, and that awakens within the being many deeper awarenesses and yearnings that will only develop fully within a person when they have been primed in their tender youth by being loved and nurtured all along the way, ideally. It has been shown time and time again that when love is denied to infants and children, it changes them. They may well harden and be withdrawn and have their own loveline to the higher realms closed down, so they stay isolated as a consequence of being subjected to a loveless existence. Their pain and suffering will be such that they cannot find within themselves any way to connect to love feelings, it is simply foreign to their experience, and suppressed within through not being used, not being awakened, or being met solely with pain and disappointment for so long it becomes associated with something dark, and even though that is a false conclusion, it is perfectly understandable if that is one's life experience and all they know, that love becomes a kind of punishment in the end because it will be unrequited and a cause of suffering. This has a parallel in the physical as well during times of famine where people go hungry and eventually, having been starved for a long enough time, people will simply shut down, they will give up and become passive, and wait for their death to come because the experience of starvation is soul-deadening in a physical sense. You were created to seek joy and bliss and it is a very strong impulse within. The body has its physical dimensions seeking this and satisfies this through physical pleasures, having a satisfying meal, quenching thirst as well as sexual intimacy. Almost everything else in the way of positive experiences that provide a kind of reward and enjoyment, whether being the recipient of good things that happen or even enjoying vicariously the good fortune of someone else one cares about, and feeling the pleasure in seeing them succeed and have joy come their way, in whatever form love shows itself, it will be recognized and prized as a valuable commodity. People are sensitive to all the nuances of love from having learned the signs that love is coming, love is on the way, love is sprouting, it is blossoming, and it is seeking you out. This will bring a smile or have the heart leap with feelings of joy that something good is happening. Love teaches you to be divine because love is the currency of the divine, the energy for everything that happens, because all has a loving impulse behind it, and a loving purpose, and a loving destiny that is intended to come about. The purpose of life is to teach you how to go about this, so you can say that "The purpose of life is learning about love in all its aspects, both receiving and giving."