Cultivating Relationships: Human and Divine
How can I encourage other people to like me more? People don't like you because of your intelligence, talents, skills, beauty, possessions, or power. People like you because of how they feel about themselves when they are with you. If they like who they are when they are with you, they will always want to be with you. The person who gives, experiences their own heart rising in waves of love. The person who receives, has the power to enhance the giver's experience of overflowing love, by receiving graciously. So, who gives the greatest gift: the one who gives objects, information or service, or the one who gives the opportunity for expansion, and refinement of the precious experience of loving? Both givings are valid. When we give to others, we are really giving to ourselves, for giving allows the heart to flow. Anyone in a human form has achieved the incredible status of a creator in the field of the relative. Even if the reality they have created is not to our liking,...