Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.