Excerpt
Define Your Relationship
Our work is to stay present, available to the universe and vulnerable to the
truth. When we are wholeheartedly present, exploring the conditioned mind, who
we really are sees who we really aren’t.
— Stephen Levine, Embracing the Beloved: Relationship As a Path of Awakening
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
— Rumi, quoted in The Essential Rumi
The first step in the eight-step process is to define your relationship. Until
you know what you’re working with and how you actually view your sibling
connection, there’s no point in attempting change. Besides, it is
difficult to transform a relationship that is ill-defined, amorphous, or
unexamined. So this is the point where you settle in to have a good look and see
how you represent this all-important relationship to yourself and to others.
Defining your relationship will thus entail identifying diffe ... read full excerpt from: Sibling Revelry ebook
