Loving and being loved

When we use the word ‘love’, we always have to remember that it means two things, united in the same act. It means both loving and being loved. It is not fully love until the loving and the being loved have been balanced. Love is only fulfilled when the passive and the active dimensions or elements are balanced; and the receptive part of ourselves, the interior part of ourselves or the feminine part of ourselves, is balanced by the giving, the outward going or the male part of ourselves.

( Aspects of Love 3, by Laurence Freeman )