There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.
The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.
When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.
Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.