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In this talk, Paul Ferrini, author of over 40 books on love, healing and forgiveness, will explore the subject of relationship as a spiritual path. The romantic hopes and expectations that we bring to our relationships are inevitably disappointed. We look for a bed of roses only to discover that beneath the petals is a bed of nails. We look for love everlasting, only to come face to face with our own wounds.
No relationship can deliver the happiness we seek because happiness cannot be found outside of ourselves. If we want real happiness, we must learn to love and accept ourselves radically. Relationship is not just an invitation to dance with another, it is more accurately and profoundly an invitation to dance with ourselves. When we understand this deeper purpose, our dance with the beloved becomes a tool for our mutual awakening. We come face to face with at our deep-seated feelings of unworthiness and look behind our reactive behavior to see the wounds that we need to heal.
Our relationships challenge us to learn to love ourselves without conditions. Our partner is merely the mirror that reflects back to us the amount of healing we have done and are willing to do. If we embrace the lessons of love we can heal our wounds and create true spiritual equality with our partner. We can move beyond patterns of co-dependency and self-betrayal into our mutual power and purpose. Our relationship can become a tool for transformation not just for us, but for all those who are touched by our lives.
Paul Ferrini is the author of forty inspirational books on love, healing and forgiveness. His unique blend of spirituality and psychology draws from the wisdom traditions of both the east and west and goes to very the heart of healing. Paul Ferrini is an ordained minister and a sought after speaker and workshop leader. His work has been endorsed as “groundbreaking” and “essential reading for the new millennium” by many of the luminaries of our time, including Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, John Bradshaw, Neale Donald Walsch, Iyanla Vanzant, and Larry Dossey, to name only a few. Paul’s books have been translated into numerous languages and his work is well known and appreciated around the world.
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