WALKING A SPIRITUAL PATH…

“Partners stay together if they can grow together. The truth is that very few of us, if we are deeply honest, are completely happy and fulfilled in long term partnerships. These days what makes a relationship successful is trending more toward the spiritual.”

“Spiritual partnership" is emerging as a new archetype for growth that prioritizes personal evolution over traditional, power-based roles like "husband" and "wife.” Relationship as a ‘spiritual path’ is a hard path, but it is also the only path many are choosing, or are even interested in walking in modern times."

“Choosing relationship as a spiritual path is about making an agreement from the start…that each is a whole being on their own journey into living in wholeness. “I will love and honour you for who you are, not who I want you to be.”

“If we have learnt anything, it is this…love and truth are inseparable. For love to grow and evolve between individuals there must always be space for truth. Anything less is a betrayal of love and a movement towards its end. A commitment to relationship as a spiritual path is a commitment into deepening personal truth and thereby, deeper love and connection with ourselves, others and the world around us.”

Stay gracious,

Linda Joy Mattson, Author, Poet / THE ROSE & PROSE / PEACEFUL PROSE / SOULS IN PROSE / ebooks and paperbacks available at roseandprose.com

(Image courtesy of a friend visiting Antigua)