What is it to be in relationship … ? To really, clearly, lovingly, be IN relationship … ?
To meet the fullness, the aliveness, the IS-ness of all that is, in any given moment. Without projecting or protecting, without expecting or exaggerating, without dismissing or diminishing, without rejecting or restricting.
Calling forth our willingness to be vulnerable (vulnerable as ‘defencelessness’, as supposed to vulnerable as ‘weakness’), we are asked in EVERY relationship, to BE in shared experience, with.
Whether seemingly romantic, or otherwise. Whether seeing an orange, or tasting the juice of its fruit. Whatever and whomever we are sharing in experience with, we are asked to drop away our perceptions of separateness, our assumptions of what we think we know, and instead allow ourselves to truly rest in to the shared experience of Being.
Quite literally, relationship = ‘the state of being connected‘.
As we pause to breathe in to this definition, we see that to be in relationship is not about a ‘you‘ and an ‘i‘, a ‘this‘ and a ‘that‘ … To be IN relationship, is to be present together in our knowing of this unique expression of connectedness. To rest in to the space where we KNOW we are connected, allowing ourselves to BE in this space, with an other. To be in relationship therefore, is to experience this connection, resting in to the state of Being that KNOWS its Oneness.
Unwilling to be fixed or tied down, each relationship – whether with an object or an animal, another being or a formless expression of nature – brings forth the opportunity to know our innate happening completeness, new in every moment, dynamically revealing the truth of who we really are.
Open to meeting ourselves as we meet an ‘other‘, with an ease that is curious to experience the simple unboundaried togetherness of Being, can we be willing to know anew what it is to BE as One?