| Posted by Rula Shin on 04/25/06 at 05:36 PM As a good friend always tells me, 'you can't fill emptiness with emptiness'. Meaningful relationships/friendships are a two way street and the path is from inside to inside, which means that if the path of one person to the other is deep, and the path of the other person to her is shallow, they will both end up in a wasteland, speaking different languages while painfully believing this is communication...what we need is not to look externally for sources to FILL us with meaning, but to look internally. TRUE self love (not self centeredness) is the only way to real happiness and peace and reconciliation...it's at that point of facing one's self that one may suddenly find himself face to face with another, COMMUNICATING seamlessly with purpose and meaning, and these alone are filling. That's what I felt when I read this. |
