The Right Relationship
On The Importance of Delayed Gratification
Pleasure is central to our survival, but as we mature, we need to learn to tolerate the discomfort of delayed gratification, especially if we have a higher purpose or vision; or desire to build a long-lasting relationship based on true intimacy and loyalty…
Costly Signaling Theory + Relationship Accountability
The lack of relationship accountability is like a state of stable ambiguity; people give “just enough” not to feel alone but to get the reward of affection, and yet certainly not give “too much” to compromise because of fears and their unwillingness to commit…
Signs of Emotional Immaturity
One of the most important things needed to have a healthy relationship that is fulfilling, intimate and long-lasting, is the ability to deal with the hard times and struggles/conflict. And this requires emotional maturity and self-awareness…
The Dandelion Girl: Love Transcends Time
“The day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, yesterday a deer, and today, you.” Love humbly begins from chance meetings, maturing into something meaningful when carefully nurtured and properly cultivated. Each day Julie sees something beautiful and substantial yet each following day is a deeper layer unfolding, beyond the veil of her eyes…
Love Letter: When The Worlds Kiss
Dear Miracle. Yes, you! The Christmas season is here and regardless of religion or spiritual belief, this is a sacred time when we celebrate the biggest miracle of all; the birth of a child, the birth of love. And we are all miracles. It is through our childlike eyes that we can see the purity and the divine in everything and everyone around us…
The Necessity of Limits, and Being Grateful for Them
“Our human and earthly limits, properly understood, are not confinements but rather inducements to fullness of relationship and meaning. Perhaps our most serious cultural loss in recent centuries is the knowledge that some things, though limited, are inexhaustible. If we always have a theoretically better substitute available from somebody or someplace else, we will never make the most of anything…
Tenderness
To keep us tender in this world is the hardest yet most important thing. Our tenderness is where our greatest strength is. When we follow its thread of water, it leads us gently to our core where despite hardships we remained resilient and unbreakable. In a way – our tenderness is our hardiness because no thing and no one was capable of destroying that part of us…
Love & Prayer
There is incredible power to this kind of devotion; of a deeply spiritual act that kneels us each and every time like nothing else ever could. Prayer is an intimate love song through which we enter into a relationship with the divine. Prayer is an offering of ourselves wholebodily and wholeheartedly. Prayer, despite its gentleness, is never afraid and in our hardest times, it gets its feet dirty holding us…
Magic, Ritual and The Natural Connection
Magic is a shapeshifter. The alchemists described it as “the ability to turn lead into gold” or in other words, it is the ability to turn something mundane into extraordinary. At its true essence, magic is a way of perceiving our world in a new way – engaging with it and falling in love with it again. It runs wild and free but it is not found outside of us – it is rooted and threads in our everyday life, in the soil of our soul…
Eros & Psyche: Breathe Life Into The Desires of Your Soul
It’s a story of fate, soul connection, trust, loss, purification and redemption.
Eros (desire) and Psyche (soul or breath of life) remind us to breathe life into the desires of our soul; a story of soul meets body, for the purified true love capable of transcending time and space. It is a reminder of the importance of trust & self love first in order to…
Exploring The Intimate Relationship
"Two lovers float entwined in one another, ensnared by their emotion. He envelops and engages; she resists and surrenders. They struggle as one with equal passion and with passion equally. She balances his head in her arms. She supports him and nurtures his soul. He...
Relationship Dynamics: Archetypes of Knights, Damsels, Kings and Queens
The knight’s armour symbolizes the shield to vulnerability; it is shining because he hasn’t gone through the emotional transformation yet – he is not emotionally mature. We can’t keep on saving and distressing just to feel needed and avoid true intimacy…