Introduction to Part 3

The following lessons focus on finding peace with others. Relationships are typically the source of our greatest joys and our deepest suffering. What I’ve found is that the friction and conflict that relationships create is a great gift, once you know how to work with it.

I’ve also found that my relationship with myself and my relationship with others are tightly intertwined. The more accepting I become of myself, the more easily I accept others as they are. The more fully I can love others, the more fully I can love myself. The more awareness and forgiveness I can bring to my own behaviors, the more easily I can understand and forgive others and so on.

As we go through these exercises, remember that you can always switch back and forth between the two. You may find that you get stuck on an exercise about finding peace with others and you can work on that problem, find the source of tension within yourself and then move back to working on the relationship.