Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.
Interpretation
Real love can be overwhelming and chaotic, affecting one's sense of control and safety.
This quote by Jonathan Carroll emphasizes the intense and often tumultuous nature of true love. It suggests that real love involves a deep emotional entanglement that can lead to losing control and perspective, indicating that the intensity of love is often accompanied by an equally intense sense of chaos and uncertainty. The mention of chaos as a 'given' reflects the idea that such experiences are an inherent part of loving deeply.
In practice
In a speech on relationships, to illustrate the often complicated nature of love.
Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.
Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally , forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy
I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.
When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved -- loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.
Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love and it's a part of me.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven
The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.
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