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• Never let a relationship cause you to lose your identity or sense of Self. Relationships should empower, since they help to remind us who we
really are.
• If you do not love yourself, others and your Source unconditionally, relationships will be a constant challenge. You can’t give to others what
you haven’t yet learned to give yourself.
• Never feel you have to prove your love to the other. Just be yourself, imperfections and all. If that's not enough, the relationship will become
fragile and out of balance.
• All relationships will end when they no longer serve the purpose of spiritual growth. When that happens, release each other with unconditional
love and move on with your lives.

When we discuss deep, personal relationships, we are led to talk about unconditional love; because that is the eventual goal. And unconditional love cannot be
experienced without help from the Source itself. With that help, it is possible one day to realize you have left possessive, dependent love behind.

Friendships

We all have friendships of different types, there are so many variables they should not be pigeon-holed. There is much written about the benefits of
friendship, and it is such an individual expression between two or more unique individuals, that I would not venture to demean the wonderful value
of friendships with endless paragraphs of predictable generalities. I found that the subject headings alone, seem to cover the essentials of friendship.

• Don't worry about knowing people, just make yourself worth knowing.
• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
• If you have to buy a person's friendship, it isn’t worth it.
• True friends have hearts that beat as one.
• If you cannot think of any nice things to say about your friends, then you have the wrong friends.
• Make friends before you need them.
• If you were another person, would you like to be a friend of yours?
• A good friend is one who neither looks down on you nor keeps up with you.
• Be friendly with the folks you know. If it weren't for them you would be a total stranger.
• A friend is never known till he is needed.
• Friendship is a responsibility...not an opportunity.
• Friendship is the cement that holds the world together.
• Friends are those who speak to you after others quit.
• The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue.
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• A friend is one who puts his finger on a fault without rubbing it in.