The path to Tranquility (spring)
22. Emotional relationships are like flowers
Emotional relationships are fascinating because, like flowers, they emit fragrance. Likewise, emotional relationships require nurturing. Maintaining emotional relationships requires care, understanding, and help, just as flowers need sunlight, rain, and nutrients.
Emotional flowers are fragile and cannot be as strong as diamonds. It may bloom warmly in the morning, but they may wither or die in the evening. Wind and rain will also destroy it. Therefore, both parties in an emotional relationship are very sensitive and need to give each other a lot of care. If one party feels hurt, the emotional window will be closed, while the other party will be left out and the feelings will become negative, and it is easy to fall into a vicious cycle. In this way, the two people will go further and further away, eventually break up, and accuse each other of betraying their affection.
The reason for the failure of emotional relationships is a lack of understanding and communication, which is ignorance. In fact, both parties have betrayed the affection because the original intention of affection is to establish a friendly relationship. If the communication channel is blocked by a stubborn ego, the relationship cannot be well established from the beginning and is destined not to last. If there is a lack of communication, then everything is based on imagination. Once the other party is imagined as a demon due to conflict, the feeling will never be the same as the first meeting.
Many times, the beauty of the first meeting is just an illusion. Each other wears a mask and only thinks about getting benefits from each other, but does not think about how to make the relationship last long. This kind of first meeting does not have the original intention of love, so it will become the cause of future suffering.
The truly beautiful and strong relationship is loving each other. Because mutual loving is not only an emotional need, but also a rational behavior with rich consciousness. When we establish a relationship with consciousness, we are experiencing the beautiful times we get along with each other, while thinking about how to develop the relationship forward, be more creative, and how to make each other live a healthy and happy life.
Mutual loving relationships with rich consciousness have taken a huge step forward. It still has the fragile quality of an emotional relationship, but it is a mutually nurturing relationship. Although it can not compare to diamond, it will become more complete and stronger like a crystal. Therefore, by establishing a mutual loving relationship, our lives have a stable foundation of happiness.
21. Our souls are all the same
23. Grasp every opportunity to love each other
