The only way to really get close to another person and not lose yourself in the relationship and to become your own centered, strong person.
We can't allow ourselves to get really close to someone unless we are strong.
What happens if we aren't strong is that we either become a sort of clone of the other or we constantly fight against them in an attempt to maintain some sense of our own identity (even though it's the false identity of the ego).
Life as people without a strong center live it in relationships and friendships is characterized either by acquiescence or by drama.
We are either losing ourselves or we are losing it.
It might sound like it's a long journey to become a strong, centered individual.
However, the insight that can make all the difference is that everything we need to be a strong person is already within us.
We have within us an infinite supply of resilience because in our essence we are one with the infinite Source of everything.
The beingness that we call God is the origin of our own being.
All the strength we require is available at the very instant we require it, if we are simply in touch with it.
In other words there is no journey to go on when it comes to discovering the strength to be present in a relationship, friendship, or work or social situation.
Any "journey" is one of getting to the point that we finally awaken to this realization.
When someone does something that upsets you-- you are being set up.
It's an opportunity to awaken to your own center and its limitless power.
But not power over others.
The power to direct our own behavior.
The strength to not lose ourselves in relationships.
The courage to contain our emotions, sitting with them until they dissipate and we return to a peacefulness instead of acting them out.
The ability to bring our full, very present self to each and every situation with which life presents us.
How do we tap into this powerful essence at our center, this beingness of the divine Presence from which we derive our individual being? It's as simple as becoming still.
Stillness is where all insight and wisdom flow from.
Stillness is where we come in touch with our powerful presence, which alone can sustain us in relationships of every kind.
All over the world individuals and groups study long and hard, course after course, book after book, talk after talk, retreat after retreat.
So many people are seeking.
Yet it doesn't require a lot of head knowledge, a great deal of study, a lengthy process.
Everything we need springs from stillness.
Of course if you like drama and struggle and difficulty, there are plenty of "journeys" you can go on that will take you round and round in circles.
You will be a lifelong seeker and hence always find relationships problematic.
Or you can simply relax into the stillness at your center-and there experience everything for which you have been searching, then share your beautiful self with others without either dominating them or losing yourself to them.
We can't allow ourselves to get really close to someone unless we are strong.
What happens if we aren't strong is that we either become a sort of clone of the other or we constantly fight against them in an attempt to maintain some sense of our own identity (even though it's the false identity of the ego).
Life as people without a strong center live it in relationships and friendships is characterized either by acquiescence or by drama.
We are either losing ourselves or we are losing it.
It might sound like it's a long journey to become a strong, centered individual.
However, the insight that can make all the difference is that everything we need to be a strong person is already within us.
We have within us an infinite supply of resilience because in our essence we are one with the infinite Source of everything.
The beingness that we call God is the origin of our own being.
All the strength we require is available at the very instant we require it, if we are simply in touch with it.
In other words there is no journey to go on when it comes to discovering the strength to be present in a relationship, friendship, or work or social situation.
Any "journey" is one of getting to the point that we finally awaken to this realization.
When someone does something that upsets you-- you are being set up.
It's an opportunity to awaken to your own center and its limitless power.
But not power over others.
The power to direct our own behavior.
The strength to not lose ourselves in relationships.
The courage to contain our emotions, sitting with them until they dissipate and we return to a peacefulness instead of acting them out.
The ability to bring our full, very present self to each and every situation with which life presents us.
How do we tap into this powerful essence at our center, this beingness of the divine Presence from which we derive our individual being? It's as simple as becoming still.
Stillness is where all insight and wisdom flow from.
Stillness is where we come in touch with our powerful presence, which alone can sustain us in relationships of every kind.
All over the world individuals and groups study long and hard, course after course, book after book, talk after talk, retreat after retreat.
So many people are seeking.
Yet it doesn't require a lot of head knowledge, a great deal of study, a lengthy process.
Everything we need springs from stillness.
Of course if you like drama and struggle and difficulty, there are plenty of "journeys" you can go on that will take you round and round in circles.
You will be a lifelong seeker and hence always find relationships problematic.
Or you can simply relax into the stillness at your center-and there experience everything for which you have been searching, then share your beautiful self with others without either dominating them or losing yourself to them.