From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start. - Leonard Cohen

There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken hallelujah.

"You have loved enough, now let me be the lover." You could say that God is speaking to you or the cosmos, or your lover. It just means, like, Forget it. Lean back and be loved by all that is already loving you. It is your effort at love that is preventing you from experiencing it. It is like if you ever taught kids how to swim. The most difficult thing is Goddam to understand that they will float, if they relax, if they hold their breath and relax, they will actually float. For most kids it is difficult to swim. They feel they are going to sink like a stone to the bottom of the lake.

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts