Life doesn’t ask us to choose between doing what’s right and what’s wrong. We’re always asked to choose between loving and learning.
“A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person’s opinion about the relationship. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents.
Marianne Williamson “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage.”
- We work out our karma through our choices.
“I don’t think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.”
Carol Matthau
- Our marriages are only as emotionally healthy and content as we are.
- There is nothing lonelier than being the lesser partner in a loveless merger.
- Shutting the door to unhappiness is the crucial step we must take before opening the next door to joy.
Re-source: Reflection
Take a closer look at the reflector we hold up to our eyes every day.
- When another’s love for us, or its lack becomes our truth, we see ourselves through that person’s eyes and through the relationship that exists between us.
- Because our love relationships are often imperfect, emotionally manipulative, disappointing, sometimes even dishonest delusions.
- And because we see ourselves reflected in them, we often see ourselves as damaged goods.
Until we learn whichever life lesson we’re meant to at the time, our lessons will keep coming back to us.
- self-acceptance, self-determination, self-discipline, self-esteem, self-forgiveness, self-interest, self-knowledge, self-respect, self-sufficiency or self-worth
- The majority of our life lessons have to do with ourselves before others.
- lessons of intimacy, communication, compassion
craving and resource from “Something More” – Excavating your Authentic Self – by Sarah Ban Breathnach