Spiritual relationship
All my life I have longed for a truly healthy, spiritual relationship. Perhaps it is not meant to be for me in this lifetime.
*sigh*
A few thoughts from this page on Spiritual Relationships
The foundation of a spiritual relationship must be unconditional love for the other.
Unconditional love allows for the freedom to be who you are, without any pretending.
The spiritual couple understands their relationship to God, the rest of humanity and all living things.
The spiritual couple knows that their finding one another was no accident. Rather it was part of a plan they prepared before entering the Earth’s plane, reminding each to appreciate the sacredness of their union.
Spiritual couples will not expect the other to do certain things other than being one’s self.
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A few of my favorite quotes from chapter eight of Conversations With God, Book I by Neale Donald Walsh. This is “God” talking to the book’s author.
“Relationships are constantly challenging; constantly calling you to create, express, and experience higher and higher aspects of yourself, grander and grander visions of yourself…
“When human relationships fail… they fail because they were entered into for the wrong reason.”
“It is very romantic to say that you were nothing until that special other came along, but it is not true. Worse, it puts an incredible pressure on the other to be all sorts of things he or she is not.”
“It is very romantic to say that now that your special other has entered your life, you feel complete. Yet the purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”
“Yet I tell you this: your focus upon the other – your obsession with the other is what causes relationships to fail.”
“If you cannot love your Self, you cannot love another.”
“… You have to prove that you can love them. To do this, they may ask you to start altering your behavior. So, in order to hold onto your love, they start altering their behavior… Thus, two people literally lose themselves in a relationship… The losing of Self in a relationship is what causes most of the bitterness in such couplings.”
“The soul has come to the body, and the body to life, for the purpose of evolution. You are evolving, you are becoming. And you are using your relationship with everything to decide what you are becoming. This is the job you came here to do… Your personal relationships are the most important elements in this process.”
“Your first relationship, therefore, must be with your Self. You must first learn to honor and cherish and love your Self.”
Perhaps one day my Soul will connect with another in such a way. Until then, I will hold onto that prayer.