Although brief glimpses are possible, love cannot
flourish unless you are permanently free of mind
identification and your presence is intense enough to have
dissolvedthepain-body—oryoucanatleastremainpresent
asthewatcher.Thepain-bodycannotthentakeyouoverand
sobecomedestructiveoflove.
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As the egoic mode of consciousness and all the social,
political, and economic structures that it created enter the
final stage of collapse, the relationships between men and
womenreflectthedeepstateofcrisisinwhichhumanitynow
finds itself.Ashumans havebecome increasinglyidentified
with their mind, most relationships are not rooted in Being
andsoturninto asourceof painandbecome dominatedby
problemsandconflict.
Millions are now living alone or as single parents,
unable to establish an intimate relationship or unwilling to
repeattheinsanedramaofpastrelationships.Othersgofrom
onerelationshiptoanother,fromonepleasure-and-paincycle
to another, in search of the elusive goal of fulfillment
throughunionwith theoppositeenergy polarity. Still others
compromise and continue to be together in a dysfunctional
relationshipin whichnegativity prevails, for the sake ofthe
children or security, through force of habit, fear of being
alone, or some other mutually "beneficial" arrangement, or
eventhroughthe unconsciousaddictiontotheexcitementof
emotionaldramaandpain.
However, every crisis represents not only danger but
alsoopportunity.Ifrelationshipsenergizeandmagnifyegoic
mind patterns and activate the pain-body,as they doat this
time, whynot accept thisfactrather thantrytoescape from
it? Why not cooperate with it instead of avoiding