When I talk about letting love lead, I’m referring to a very
profound inner movement that comes from the depth of our
being. Putting love in charge is not how we normally live;
usually, we let our reactions and ego lead us. Though love
is all around us, we seldom give it our full attention;
there are so many other places where we focus our energy.
It’s amazing how easy it is to give up our loving nature.
We’re conditioned to deriving our worth from outside
ourselves – from what other people think of us, from what we
achieve materially, from what we look like. “I don’t really
know who I am,” we may say to ourselves, “but if these
people love me, I must be okay.”
That’s another example of living life from the outside in.
It’s an empty promise, because if, in the next moment,
people stop loving you, or don’t look at you the way you
want them to, you will no longer feel okay. When others
withdraw their love, you find yourself withdrawing, too, and
contracting. Contraction is a kind of pulling back –
physically, emotionally, or mentally – that closes us down
to life.
The objective of letting love lead is to move you to a state
of expansion, of opening to life and fully embracing it.
– John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead – Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 21-22)