To be open to the truth of love, we must
relinquish our frozen comprehensions and begin instead to appreciate. To comprehend is to grasp; to appreciate is
to value. Appreciation is gentle seeing,
soft acknowledgement, reverent perception.
Appreciation can be a pleasant valuing:
being awed by a night sky, touched by a symphony, or moved by a caress
without needing to understand why. It can
also be painful: feeling someone’s
suffering, being shocked by loss or disaster without comprehending the
reason. Appreciation itself is a kind of
love; it is our direct human responsiveness, valuing what we cannot grasp. Love, the life of our heart, is not what we
think. It is always ready to surprise
us, to take us beyond our understandings into a reality that is both insecure
and wonderful.
--Gerald May,
The Awakened Heart:
Opening Yourself to the Love You Need
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