From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious. Some relationships are necessarily painful because learning about ourselves and facing our own limitations are not things we tend to do with enthusiasm. We often need to be spiritually “set up” for such encounters.
Relationships are essentially spiritual messengers.
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We can more easily see the symbolic value of our relationships when we release our compulsion to judge what and who has value and instead focus on honoring the person and task with which we are involved.
The spiritual challenge is to learn to interact consciously with others: to form unions with people who support our development and to release relationships that handicap our growth.
Anatomy of the Spirit By Caroline Myss