"...all negative situations only have power when we ourselves recognize and deepen our awareness of them by concentrating in a battle to overcome them." (Brother Mandus, as quoted by Joel Goldsmith in the "The Heart of Mysticism" at p. 198)
It is never a good idea, when a friendship hits a rough patch, to try to talk it over. Which is heresy on its face only if you don't understand the premise.
"To try to talk it over" implies thinking it over first, and there's the problem. Thinking it over is the reasoning mind's invitation to ride. Thinking it over puts the reasoning mind in control, and the reasoning mind is never going to bring permanent peace. The reasoning mind is at peace when we win and they lose...the very source of impermanence because then they are plotting how to win the next round.
True healing comes to a cracked or even ruptured relationship not through what we say but through the state of consciousness that we are.
Trying to solve our problem involves the reasoning mind, and the reasoning mind always legislates for itself. Trying to solve a problem, then, is resistance which only nurtures the problem, growing it stronger...but currying the other's favor is also resistance. They are both just different ways for the reasoning mind to try to win.
To see us as one with God, to realize that, is to be set free. We are on the right path when we recognize our various paths, our different ways, all lead to the same place...at One with God, happy, joyous, free.
Thank You.
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