True connection

True connection with others also requires connection with self.  When I look toward connection with others to fill my lonely emptiness, I never get what I want.  I become a perfectionist and demanding because I see what the other is going through as crucial to my personal sense of wellness.   Within me is a fullness from which I can have a true encounter with the fullness of another person.  Two empty containers don’t make for a full one.  Today I will go within for nourishment and support another person in doing the same.  When each of us is able to do this, we will have something beautiful to share.

I connect with the fullness of others through the fullness of my own soul.

Soul or saint making is not an overnight process; it may take most of our lives, or it may take only a few revelations of the truth – it all depends on who we are and what we are dealing with.  That is why it is so important to have respect for one another.  Finding the gifts at the core of our soul is an interesting process.  It frees us to be truly ourselves in the most beautiful light available, God’s love.  

Terry Lynn Taylor

(Extract from The Soul’s Companion by Tian Dayton)