Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.