'You have loved enough, now let me be the lover.' You could say that God is speaking to you or the cosmos, or your lover. It just means, like, Forget it. Lean back and be loved by all that is already loving you. It is your effort at love that is preventing you from experiencing it. It is like if you ever taught kids how to swim. The most difficult thing is Goddam to understand that they will float, if they relax, if they hold their breath and relax, they will actually float. For most kids it is difficult to swim. They feel they are going to sink like a stone to the bottom of the lake.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker advises surrendering active effort in love to allow natural connection, comparing it to swimming.
- In plain terms
- Stop trying so hard to love and let yourself be loved instead.
- What can you take from it?
- Relaxation allows for deeper connection than forceful effort.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is effort helpful in love?
- Can you relax into trust?
Another view
The analogy to swimming assumes physical relaxation translates to emotional states.
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