The moment we really wake up here, we will realize that all of our experiences here are sacred. Part of us are still trying to keep things separated, and I’m not saying that interaction between two people is not sacred, I say, “Yes!” It’s very sacred, and I say, yes, dance with it however you need to for it to keep flourishing, but if we get too fixated, and too closed in, we do not leave enough room for our own growth, or the growth of the other. Part of it is that in any situation, you want to make sure that the interaction is big enough to accommodate both of the people in it. And it may need to continuously keep shifting, as the people keep growing, as they keep expanding their awareness and their abilities, as they keep opening to the world. So, it’s a challenge for us, but at the same time, it’s almost like a necessity to at least keep the space open for there to be dialogue around these things, or we’ll end up creating some situation where we’ll have to force people to leave us in order to keep expanding.
If you can allow another individual the total freedom to be who they are, without putting a limitation on who they can be, they never really have a need or a necessity to leave you in order to keep expanding. But if you force them into a place where they’ve got to make a choice between you and their own greater expansion, you’re gonna be the looser. If there’s ever a question between one being true to their own being and being true to you, you’re gonna come up on the short end of the stick. So, it really takes a lot of bigness of heart for you to be able to be present with them, and to create an environment that is welcoming whatever growth or whatever expansion that they are capable of in this lifetime.

- Nityama