The final question regarding the post “Loving Yourself” was “what is the point of relationships? Do they serve a real purpose?”
The all encompassing answer is yes! Everything, All That Is always has a purpose, but the irony is, nothing has any meaning except for the meaning that you give it! That being said, let me elaborate on some of the meanings that I have given to relationships.
In the grand scheme of things, in the big picture, we are all One. Since we are all One, the One fragments itself so that it may be able to experience itself, as it measures itself relating to something else. Something is ‘something’ only because of its relationship to something else, even if that something is nothing. The Game of Relationships is a part of the Game of Life. The Game of Relationships exists so that something can know itself by knowing that there is something else besides itself. The something compares itself to something else, it recognizes its ‘like-ness’ and its differences. Also, in the grand scheme of things, this comparison takes place without any sort of judgment, as neither good or bad, it just notices the similarities or the differences. This non-judgmental state is worth noting because Spirit does not judge anything, but yet the human (the mind) judges everything.
So you see, there is purpose to relationships, but the point of relationships is as individual as the individual having it.
Would you like to know the cool thing about this? You get to decide the point of each and every relationship you have, and just because it may have begun with one point, it can easily become another point as soon as you decide it to be so. Let’s go over a few examples…
The story “The Giving Tree” is about a young boy who began to have a relationship with a tree. As the story progresses the young boy turns into a young man and the relationship changes. Then as the story comes to the close, the young man has become an old man and the relationship with the tree has once again evolved into something else. My point: relationships can be with anything, animate or inanimate. Relationships do not have to be a relationship between two people, but yet this type of relationship often can tell us a great deal about ourselves. Yes, relationships can be with anything from a tree, to a place, food, sex, drugs, family, loved ones, etc.
Relationships show us about ourselves, whether it be with someone or something. I mentioned over and over again last week that our outside relationships reflect our inner relationship with ourselves, and this still holds true.
Take some time to look at each and every relationship that you have. Do your best to look not through your ‘judgment’ eyes, but rather the eyes of Awareness. What do you think it says about you? And remember, nothing has any meaning except the meaning that you give it. And also remember, while it may mean one thing in this moment, it can mean something else in the next moment; it will be up to you!
If you want more information on this subject, here are a few other posts relating to this topic:
1) “The Game of Relationships Reveals Much About You”
2) “The Game of Relationships”
3) “Do Not Judge”
If you have any questions and/or comments, feel free to ask them through our comments or via email.
Love and Namaste…
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