What are the components of a healthy and successful relationship with your friends? What do you do when your spiritual growth doesn’t evolve at the same rate or in the same direction? In this little piece Almine shares a few ideas.
That which feeds the soul one moment may not do so the next. Do not bind fellow travelers with whom you have shared a portion of the road when your destination leads you on another path.
Friendship for inspiration
Friendship has become fettered by expectations and unspoken contracts. The freedom of a butterfly is forfeited for the feeling of community experienced by the ant.
Let friendship be for inspiration and delight, whether for a moment or eternity. We are travelers on life’s journey and in our unfolding, never the same. That which feeds the soul one moment may not do so the next. Do not bind fellow travelers with whom you have shared a portion of the road when your destination leads you on another path.
Should it so be that another moves forward with you in the spontaneous unfoldment of your life, let it be with a joyous pas de deux that moves in common devotion to the Song of Life. Let our prayer of friendship be that it unfold with impeccable timing and that we embrace transiency as the nature of the delightful illusion of relationship. Let us rest secure in the permanency of the One Life, expressing as the many.
Questions and answer on relationships
Here’s a little poetic Q&A with Almine on relationships. Enjoy!
Is aloneness not the answer to illusion’s bane? Does solitude not help us clarity to gain?
The Infinite has designed relationship’s game, refining the individuations who participate with gratitude in the joyous play. When in your solitude, upon its pleasures meditate.
Must interaction with others be sparingly done, lest we forget that we are one?
The realization of the One Life expressing through you must be a perspective that permeates all you do. Internalize the understanding before each day begins. Through all your relationships, carry it within. We do not wish a respecter of persons to be. Yet choosing others of our level of consciousness comes naturally. Friendship has no point unless it makes your heart sing; unless it blesses your life with the gifts that it brings.
Must we not also ask, “What can we give?”
To contribute where needed is the way masters live. It is part of the river of life that through us flows, leaving all enriched like fertile plants that on its banks grow.
Are we then friend to all we happen to meet?
For as long as it makes your hearts sing.
But will some not take advantage if we lower our guard? Or will we be guided by our hearts?
What can you guard against when all you see is you? You live in harmony when you live in truth.
This poetic piece is but a part of the insights into friendship from the Qi Vesta – Alchemy of the One online course. Other topics that are discussed in-depth are abundance, happiness, illuminations, suffering, good and evil, love and trust.
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Thank you for this very timely reminder Niels. 🙂 Appreciate these little reminders.
The QiVesta holds a scared place in my heart…it was my spring-board into the unknowable and magical journey of Self. I found many, many treasures and unimaginable gifts in the QiVesta. I loved reading this post, thank you.
Glad you liked it, Anna. But more importantly, glad that the Qi Vesta did so much for you!
Niels
Team Almine