"Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you"

Love is portrayed as an autonomous presence, a force with its own rhythms and seasons. It does not answer to our calendars or our plans, and it refuses to be domesticated by our fears or our demands. Attempts to secure it through bargaining, pressure, or clever arguments only reveal a misunderstanding: love is not a contract to be enforced or a puzzle to be solved; it is a living current that moves through us when conditions are ripe.

Recognizing this shifts the focus from control to readiness. Rather than scheming to make love stay, we cultivate the qualities that invite it, openness, honesty, courage, and patience. We learn to be present when it visits, to inhabit the moment rather than fast-forward to promises or guarantees. Embracing love means receiving it without entitlement, trusting its timing even when it is inconvenient or mysterious, and letting it transform us while it is here.

There is also an invitation to let go. Because love is not possession, its departure is part of its truth. Holding it with a clenched fist turns tenderness into fear. Letting it go, while painful, honors its freedom and ours. Grief then becomes an expression of love’s significance rather than an indictment of its impermanence.

“Give it away when it comes to you” points to love’s generative nature. Love grows by being shared; it stagnates when hoarded. When we express it, in kindness, attention, forgiveness, we become conduits rather than collectors. The paradox is that generosity stabilizes what grasping cannot: a sense of abundance that persists even through loss.

The wisdom here is not passivity but humility. Accept that love will not be managed; prepare yourself to meet it well. When it arrives, meet it with gratitude. When it goes, release it with grace. Live in such a way that, whenever love returns, it finds you ready to welcome and to give.