Relationships need mutuality.
The intimacy of overlapping
imaginations is what happens when our minds meet with another person’s mind and
there is that special connection between two. This sort of connection is saved
for the superlative marriage, for best-friends-forever, and for those
relationships where teams come to endure great and tumultuous conquests
together.
The intimacy in overlapping
imaginations is that crazy sort of connection we serendipitously arrive at;
both amazed at the wonder that is felt in the inter-psychic space between them.
A bond that transcends time and space occurs.
Halcyon Relationships Are Symbolised by Fleeting
Moments of Connection
Whenever a loved one has died, the
mind recalls memories of split instances in time where something special was
said or done. We retain that fleeting moment as an enduring memory that symbolises
what the relationship meant to us.
This, and many other examples of
the best of times, is proof that the best of relationships are harnessed in the
heavenly moment that transcends every self-conscious barrier. In the moment,
from the spiritual viewpoint, two become one.
In a flash there is the
overlapping of the imagination. The meeting of minds and the heralding of hearts
brings a transformation of purpose to both, or all concerned.
All it took was a moment of mutual
openness.
When such a moment arrives, many
other previously regrettable moments are swept from the memory. This is the
moment of redemption!
If we would believe, falsely I
might add, that there is no basis for redemption in certain relationships, we
may stand to be corrected to experience such a heavenly moment. No relationship
is beyond repair, so long as there is the possibility of having a moment of
mutual openness with the other.
Opening Up Into Another
Our opportunities to love are
myriad every day. As we open up into another person, through a gentle curiosity
to understand their world, without the slightest sense of intrusion, we expand
the likelihood of engaging in the overlapping imagination—where two minds
combine, for a moment, into oneness.
In the moment, the transaction of
loving affinity is made—a fusion of souls. This is relationship.
Opening up into another person is
one soul’s availability for another. Preferring another person’s agenda over
our own creates space for the overlapping of their imagination with ours. All
it takes is the desire to enter into service for another.
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Relationships are blessed because
of the overlapping of imaginations—where two people share a moment of oneness.
Establishing the overlapping of imaginations requires the enjoining of one
person’s curiosity with another person’s receptivity.
Love is a two-way street, but love
starts when one reaches toward another in ways that the other person welcomes.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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