“Before reading A Course in Miracles, I had studied many spiritual and philosophical works. I felt they led me to a vast staircase toward a majestic cathedral in my mind, but as soon as I reached the stairs, the church door turned out to be locked. The Course gave me the key that opened the door.
The key, quite simply, is other people.”* — Marianne Williamson, “A Return to Love”
I really like this thought by Marianne Williamson. For me, too, human relationships are the primary spiritual practice—they are the test of how much we have realized love in our lives. I don’t mean love as mere affection or “liking”; I mean love that is beyond the duality of life. I mean love-wisdom.
Therefore, I would formulate her idea slightly differently: the key that can open the majestic cathedral in the mind is not found in other people, but in our own hearts. Our connection with others serves only to prompt us to seek this key in its proper place.
Only when we connect the mind with the heart does the experience arrive—the true condition for truly knowing and understanding anything.
Kameliya Hadzhiyska
Note: The quotations are translated from Bulgarian and are not presented as verbatim citations.
