relationships

Humanity is under great pressure to evolve because it is our only chance of survival as a race.
This will affect every aspect of your life and close relationships in particular.
Never before have relationships been as problematic and conflict ridden as they are now.
As you may continue to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship,
you will be disillusioned again and again.
But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious
instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation,
and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness
that wants to be born into this world. For those who hold to the old patterns,
there will be increasing pain, violence, confusion, and madness.
-Eckart Tolle

Relationships

Sometimes people come into your life
and you know right away that they were
meant to be there,to serve some sort of
purpose, teach you a lesson,or to help
you figure out who you are or who you
want to become. You never know who
these people may be possibly your
roommate, neighbor, professor, long lost
friend, lover, or even a complete stranger,
but when you lock eyes with them, you
know at that very moment they will affect
your life in some profound way.
~Author Unknown

Relationships

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated
for what one can get for oneself.

-Anthony DeMello

Relationships

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand.
Held loosely, with an open hand the sand remains where it is.
The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on,
the sand trickles through your fingers.
You may hold onto some of it, but mostly it will be spilled.
A relationships is like that.
Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person,
it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively,
and the relationship slips away and is lost.
--Kahlil Jamison