The most important relationship you’ll ever have is a spiritual relationship between yourself and a higher power. Relationships with other people are good, necessary even. But in our darkest hour our spouses, family or friends may not be there for us; not because they don’t want to, but often because they cannot. So we should take the time to develop and nurture our spiritual selves. Our mother can’t do it for us. Our father can’t do it for us. Our husband or wife can’t do it for us. This is work that we must do ourselves. In the end, it’s the most important.
It is partly individual work, and partly collective. Spiritual effort is a process of cause and effect interactions. It is impossible for the efforts of one to not impact the many. It is essential to understand the structure of the forms of influence that are the foundation of spirituality.