Whenever two people put the love of Truth, of the Almighty, before themselves, their love will flourish in ways impossible for those who have only themselves to either embrace or blame. To help clarify this liberating fact, try to see the truth in the following insight: Where two people believe their happiness is in the other person’s hands, therein you have not only painful codependency, but something of a more insidious nature. You have two people who have closed the doors to the possibility of knowing the divine Love that brought them together in search of itself. Giving ourselves to a greater Love frees us from all painful codependency.

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