Relationship

RELATIONSHIP

IT is a fact of life, whether we like it or not, that the relationship is not between two people but between two images which each has created about the other.  There is relationship only when two of us can look at each other without the image of memory, of insults and all the rest.

To be related means being in contact, something direct and not between two images.  It requires a great deal of honesty, of attention, of an awareness to look at another without the image which I have about that person, based on my memories.

This can happen only if we are deeply aware that what we consider as someone’s ‘action’ - oneself or the other - is really in fact a happening according to God’s Will or Cosmic Law, and not any individual’s action.

- From CELEBRATE THE WIT & WISDOM, The Mysterious Way In Which Understanding Happens by Ramesh S. Balsekar  https://advaita.3dcartstores.com/CELEBRATE-THE-WIT-WISDOM-The-Mysterious-Way-In-Which-Understanding-Happens-by-Ramesh-S-Balsekar_p_282.html

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