What if you are a soul seeker and you're with someone who's not? How do you deal with that? Whether you find yourself in this scenario now or at some point in the future, let's delve deep and see what this could mean for you in your life. Visit http://thetruthaboutliving.com/podcast/ for complete show notes of every podcast episode

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• How to deal with being in a relationship with someone who's at the other end of the spectrum from what you are
• What happens when you're on the opposite end of the spectrum in a relationship
• Tips on how to deal with your own idea of 'what should be'
• The things that shape who we are
• How not to fall into a state of feeling better than someone else because your path is more worthy

Key Takeaways:

• As you're with someone over a period of time, there are things about you that change, grow, and evolve, and yet there things about you that stay the same.
• We always think that we're going to be the happiest if we are with someone who has the same perspectives that we have, but it doesn't mean that in order to have maximum harmony in your life that you should really be the same. It's actually interesting to be with someone who sees things differently.
• It's a part of being human to want to be right and to want other people to agree with us. And our need to be understood and our need for agreement can be amplified in a relationship. But the more enlightened we are, the less we need other people's agreement or validation.
• We tend to let our ego come into this space that was meant to be pure love and presence and acceptance. And sometimes we use our difference in spirituality as an excuse for unhappiness and as barriers in our relationships.
• The simple act of noticing when the ego comes in is transformative. When you bring awareness into what you're actually doing or saying or thinking, you begin to see a shift and find that you have this ability to hit a pause button.
• You ultimately know what is the best relationship for you. If your relationship is at a point where you feel that there's just so much misalignment and nothing is in harmony, then you know the choices you have to make around that. But you can't demand that someone be like you or do the things that you do.
• To demand what you think is the right way to be and demand that your partner do what you do is really off-track from what it means to honor their holiness, to see them as pure presence and pure love, and to embrace them and accept them for who they are and what they believe in or don't believe in, in their own path.

Action Steps:

• Look past appearances. Look past arguments. Look past preferences that you don't agree with. Look past faults and flaws. Look past all of the things that make up our humanness and know that the person you're in a relationship with is of God.

• Allow some grace into your relationship and honor their path. Offer presence, love, and non-judgment to your partner, no matter what their belief system is.
• Allow yourself to see the good that can come from different perspectives.
• Ask yourself this question: Are you holding your happiness hostage or allowing someone else to hold your happiness hostage because they're not doing the exact same thing, the exact same time, in the exact same way?

Thank you for listening!

Quotes:

"If we're talking about true enlightenment here or true awakening, I think we have to let the ego really take a back seat and not allow the ego to intervene in what we think of as pure spiritual pursuits."

"It doesn't mean that because one person is having a spiritual awakening that instantly everyone should be having the same spiritual experience. There is a grander plan. There is a bird's-eye view of things that we're not able to see. We can only see from our own perspective."

Resource Mentioned:

• Jim Carrey on "Awakening" - YouTube Video
• A Course in Miracles
• You'll See It When You Believe It by Wayne Dyer

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