“We are endlessly diverse and unique in our hues and textures, but we are also all one; love is expressing itself not only through us bit as us.
“It is not easy to own and claim love as our true identity and deepest dignity. We cannot describe it in words. We cannot grasp it or treat it as an object. It is not something we can do, a process to go through, or even a specific way to be. It transcends psychological categorization, philosophical comprehension, and even moral judgement. The only way to own and claim love as our identity is to fall in love with love itself, to feel affection for our longing, to value our yearning, treasure our wanting, embrace our incompleteness, be overwhelmed by the beauty of our need.”
From The Awakened Heart, by Gerald May.
Efficiency and Love
April 5, 2009
“In becoming adults, we have been conditioned to believe that efficiency is more important than love.
Efficiency is the ‘how’ of life…
in contrast, love is the ‘why’ of life: why we are functioning at all, what we want to be efficient for.”
From The Awakened Heart, by Gerald May.
“To give all for love is a most sweet bargain. O let me love, or not live!”
Gertrude More, Lover’s Confessions, 1658.
