Internet Friendships/Relationships

[SI]

The interesting thing about internet friends and relationships is that they have the element of suspense and there is much that is left to your imagination. The challenging part can be when you finally meet the person and add the physical dimension to the relationship.

Challenging might be an understatement in some cases, you know how people are soooo visual 

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

i just think that we need to work within practical parameters. After all most of us live quite a distance from each other and may never meet each other in person. People have to feel a strong pull to want to meet personally and if one person does not feel that same pull then we back off and are at square one--which isn't that bad after all. i mean we r fortunate to have this kind of connection.

One of the perplexing phenomena of relationships of all sorts is that interests in people do not always match. What i mean by this is that i have found that people interested in me---i may not take such a strong interest in them--- but later i might change and feel different. i have also found this to work the other way around. Someone i may initially have an interest for ... later that strong interest dissipates. When two people continue to have similar interests in each other either as friends or lovers then you really have some dynamite going there.

i can tell u that my interest in Amma and Paramahansa Yogananda have been dynamite because the interest was returned and continues to be! PROBLEM IS .....RECOGNIZING IT AT ALL TIMES.... NOT JUST SOMETIMES.

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

The interesting thing about internet friends and relationships is that they have the element of suspense and there is much that is left to your imagination. The challenging part can be when you finally meet the person and add the physical dimension to the relationship.

Challenging might be an understatement in some cases, you know how people are soooo visual 

Not me SI i am visually stupitendish. 

[Shannon]

I think that is very true.  Really, anyone who reaches the end of their life who can count one or two truly good friends amongst their company is deeply blessed - because life, circumstance, attitudes and all else tend to get in the way.  . The Guru is always there.

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

I think that is very true.  Really, anyone who reaches the end of their life who can count one or two truly good friends amongst their company is deeply blessed - because life, circumstance, attitudes and all else tend to get in the way.  . The Guru is always there.

Quite frankly, I think it amounts to this: Do I want to spend my life alone? Not really. If u can't meet someone half way u/i... could b destined to live alone.

Shannon... what I was trying to say is this: U have mentioned people are basically the same. Yet I feel as though the Masters have done much to help me, thru circumstances and people to change my attitudes over the years.

[Shannon]

The Masters help devotees to evolve, yes using friends to do it, so that one can more clearly reflect their true self; Spirit.  Attitude is ego.  No one is ever really alone.  Only feels that way sometimes!

[SI]

One man's alone is another mans peace and serenity.