Creating Union: The Essence of Intimate Relationship

The Feminine Principle The consciousness behind the attitude of letting be is one of patient, trustful waiting, of allowing a ripening process come to fruition, of surrendering to a force set in motion; this may be called the feminine principle in creation.

You all need to make contact with your hidden cruelty, brutality, sadism, vindictiveness, and malice, to learn how to truly outgrow these destructive emotions by seeing, understanding and accepting them.

It is often not clear to you what constitutes a profound and meaningful relationship: Is the criterion the mutual exchange of ideas or is it the mutual exchange of sexual pleasure? Both may indeed be there, yet their presence will not necessarily make the communication very deep. The only true criterion is how genuine you are, how open and undefend

With true self-understanding, and the consequent liberation from your self-constructed prison, there will be nothing strained in your self-revelation and your relationships. You will intuitively choose the right people and the right opportunities and the right manner. Occasional misjudgments will never crush you or put you back into hiding. But the

The attitude of “letting be” means to be receptive and to wait. It is also a movement, for anything that is alive must be moving. But this kind of movement is very different from the movement of the activating principle. The activating principle moves out toward another state. The spirit of letting be is a movement within itself; it is a pulsating,

Remember that the whole plan of evolution is about uniting, bringing together individual consciousnesses, for only in this way can separateness be given up.

Without facing what we like least about ourselves, we cannot understand why we don’t have a well-working relationship, let alone make a significant change.

Now, by contrast, let me immediately go to the highest form of human beings. These are people who relate beautifully; who are deeply involved with others; who are unafraid of involvement; who have no protective covering against experience and feeling. Therefore they love. They permit themselves to love. In the last analysis, the ability to love alw

As long as you cannot admit that you are human and that you need help in exposing your vulnerabilities, you cannot form real relationships.