Rather, as I believe you now understand, “the purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.” — Neale Donald Walsch from Conversations with God, Book 1
I drop that quote often. I also used it as a spiritual writing prompt 6 weeks ago (I issue weekly spiritual prompts as an editor for Promptly Written) and as part of my own response to the prompt I wrote:
Are You Searching for Your Other Half?
The title of this piece is both related to the quote and to a pet peeve of mine — the propagation among certain spiritual circles of the myth of the twin flame soulmate. Proponents of the concept believe that souls have a twin — that each human soul exists as half of a soul that had been split in two and we are on a quest to find our other half to complete us. When Lindsey died, I almost fell prey to this myth and those that sell it. If you are interested, I wrote about my experience here:
