We must learn to see the relationship, the close, intimate relationship, as a kind of a ground on which we stand with the other. We stand together in that relationship. In other words, it isn’t my relationship; it is the relationship that unites us. We stand as equal sharers in the mystery of that sacred ground. Very often, those close relationships in our lives, we didn’t choose. Very often, we see them as gifts, people or communities that come into our lives as the sacred gifts of God, manifestation of the nature of God through human relationship.
( Aspects of Love 2, by Laurence Freeman )
