Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life

Rather than running away from the you of your past, you are running toward becoming the you of your future.

The traumas we internalized were either acute, such as the death of a parent, or developmental, such as being raised by a depressed or immature parent who constantly pulled on you to be the caregiver in your relationship, or what we therapists call the “parentified child.”

George Bernard Shaw once said that our “…worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them.”

In order to attract an extraordinary love, and sustain relationships that are characterized by authenticity, kindness, and respect, then we must outgrow our tendencies to unconsciously duplicate the relational traumas of our past, and replay over and over again our deepest disappointments in love.

Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Then I’d imagine that the miracle had already happened, and I was in a wonderful relationship with a kind and loving man.

For this reason, I began each day in a visioning meditation. Which basically means I made a sincere attempt to sit in stillness for a few minutes before running off to the demands of my ridiculous schedule.

Spiritual partnership implies the goal of inspiring and supporting the unfolding of each other’s souls in this journey through life.

“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.”