Thoughts, feelings and what's the point?: Listener question

I understand what you say Clare, and when you speak it feels so freeing, but I have questions because of what I have known.

I have previously understood that thought creates our feelings, actions and experiences. 

If everything is a creation of thought or a perceived self identity, in order to have a positive experience, I have understood to need to have positive thought. 

If our attempt to create positive thought comes from a separation of self, and that the thoughts are not ours, what role does positive affirmations, and manifestation play? Are they futile? 

When I feel in a place of love and I can generate a feeling of love, I feel good. The world feels good, and my experience feels good. Should I be falsely generating feelings of love? Even if I go into my own heart to do it?

Sometimes, I go into my heart and talk to my heart and feel my heart, this feels like I am connecting with the real me. What is this?

In my questioning “what is the point?” Over the years, if we are just existing on earth to eat drink sleep and work, what is the point, I am sent back to something my aunt told me when I was a child. I meant nothing to me until recently. She said life is about love. It’s all she said, or all I remember, if she elaborated. 

I interpret that now as love for another, love for self, love for nature and seeing love, beauty and good in all and everything. Is that what it’s about?