Gr Bentil
This phrase works on the idea that luck is not something you wait for passively, it is something that is already trying to reach you but is being blocked by something you are doing or holding onto. The barrier is the operative word. It implies that the obstacle to good fortune is rarely external bad luck itself, but a self imposed limit: fear, overplanning, rigid expectations of how things should unfold, or simply refusing to act until conditions feel perfectly safe. Remove the barrier does not mean force an outcome. It means stop blocking the paths through which opportunity, chance encounters, or unexpected openings can actually reach you.
The second half, let luck show you the way, reframes luck not as a reward you earn through control, but as a kind of intelligence you can follow once you stop overriding it with your own rigid plans. This is closer to how luck actually tends to work in real life. People who stay flexible, who say yes to unplanned conversations, who take the smaller opportunity instead of waiting for the perfect one, end up exposed to far more lucky breaks simply because they have not built walls around what is allowed to happen to them. Luck rewards exposure and motion, not certainty. A barrier, by definition, reduces exposure. It keeps you safe, but it also keeps the rest of the world out.
As motivation, this phrase is essentially permission to loosen your grip on the outcome. It suggests that the work is not always pushing harder toward a goal, sometimes the work is identifying what you are doing that is actively closing doors, whether that is fear of looking foolish, an unwillingness to ask for help, or an insistence on one specific path. Once that barrier comes down, you are not guaranteeing a lucky outcome, you are simply allowing yourself to be in a position where one becomes possible. The luck was not missing. The way was blocked.luc
