"Love is an attempt at penatrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual"
2006-08-20 15:16:33 · 16 answers · asked by herstory 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes, it makes absolute sense. You just have to either lived long enough to have gone through some of life, or be wise enough to really understand what the quote is saying.
What I interpret it to say is: When you are in love with someone you have the compelling urge to become one with them....but unless both parties have the same compelling urge to unite as one, there will be no chance for success. If one loves more than the other, there is an imbalance. If only one surrenders, but not the other, then you cannot acheive equalness.
And if you have ever been in a love relationship with someone who doesn't love as much as you do, you will know the power that one has over the other.
2006-08-20 15:27:09 · answer #1 · answered by littleflower_57 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, I do agree....
Having been married to my "best friend" for 6 years, I understand the invasiveness of real love. My husband is very much a part of who I am, and vice versa- It seems that I am a big part of who he is.
The mutual surrender- very true!! Love is about giving yourself, not conquering. It's about making the other person's wellbeing more important than your own.
2006-08-20 23:07:51 · answer #2 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a romantic delusion! If love is a matter of two people "penetrating" one another, it suggests their becoming so entangled and enmeshed that they lose their personal identities. If that's the case, not only will the love not last, neither will even survive.
2006-08-20 22:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree.
I prefer Spider Robinson and Robert E. Heinlein who both said basically that love is that condition in which your own happiness is entirely dependent on the happiness and well being of another.
2006-08-20 22:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by tazboyed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Love is penetrating the shells we surround ourselves in and that can only be done by surrending ourselves to that other person.
2006-08-20 22:27:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who made this observation?
I agree in part. My own statement has been "Love is the freely giving of yourself, the humble receiving of another, and without the selfish taking by either."
2006-08-20 22:23:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
love is the instinctual feeling that a relationship with a certain other will help your DNA to proliferate
whether due to reproduction or self preservation
2006-08-20 22:23:35 · answer #7 · answered by anonacoup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok. but don't use the word penatrating.. it turns me on.. whoo hooo..
2006-08-20 22:23:12 · answer #8 · answered by Don K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beautifully put. You summed something up that I couldn't quite articulate. Yep. That's it. It's rare though
2006-08-20 22:23:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree. It simply does not fit my own world view and personal experience.
2006-08-20 22:21:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋