Short Quotes About Relationships

Much of human engagement is merely an escape from one's self.

• Harmful Influences 5/13/11

Knowledge is your primary relationship because it is your connection to God.

• Ending Separation (3/3/11)

Short quotes

Relationship is when two or more people come together to fulfill an inner and an outer need.

• Relationships and Higher Purpose, chapter 12:Establishing Relationships

This will change your values and your priorities. This will change what you look for in others. This will change what you value in yourself. This will change your relationship with time. This will change your experience of relationships. This will change your relationship with your mind and your body. This will change your relationship with everything. That is the shock.

• The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011)

Many of the relationships that people initiate out of desire, passion or need are premature because it is important to get your bearings in life before you engage yourself or commit yourself to others.

• Living the Way of Knowledge (Chapter 3, The Pillar of Relationships)

...if Knowledge cannot be brought into your relationships and into your decisions regarding relationships, then Knowledge remains only a potential within you.

• Living the Way of Knowledge (Chapter 3, The Pillar of Relationships)

Long Quotes

Build real relationships. Begin with your relationship with Knowledge and develop character by developing patience, forbearance, restraint, objectivity, compassion, the ability to observe others and the ability to have your life be undefined. This builds character, and with this you gain a greater capacity for experience. This is Wisdom. And in order for you to be a vehicle for Knowledge in life-to be an inspiration to others and to give your life wholeheartedly-you must have this foundation and you must have your essential relationships.

• Living the Way of Knowledge (Chapter 3, The Pillar of Relationships)

Relationship with God

If you cannot engage with God, how are you going to really engage with anyone else?

If you cannot experience affinity with the Power and the Presence of God, how are you going to experience affinity with anyone else?

You may become intoxicated, falling in love temporarily with someone.

You may be delighted with another’s presence, but will you be able to experience true affinity with them?

If you do not trust God, how will you trust anyone else?

• God’s Power & Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)

This relationship, however, which is so primary, can never be your sole focus, for God wants your eyes turned to the world where you have come to serve and to work. The more God abides with you as your work progresses and becomes a deeper experience and a greater commitment for you, the more God grows in your experience. Here God becomes more a context than an individual, more a greater experience of relationship than an authority. In this way, God is able to work through you without distracting you. In this way, you are able to work with God without losing your focus in the world.

• Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 15, p. 219

Relationship with the World

The world represents a relationship in which your purpose is initiated, fostered and realized. That is why seeking escape from the world or a permanent retreat from the world is counterproductive. The very tribulations in the world that you find so difficult and so unpleasant are the very things that will call out of you the greatness that you have come to give.

• Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 18, p. 225