Meditation for Aug 23 from "Each Day a New Beginning - Meditations for Women"

Were our knowledge of human relationships a hundredfold more reliable than it is now, it would still be foolish to seek ready-made solutions for problems of living in the index of a book.
--Mirra Komarovky

The problems each of us experience have within their own paramaters the solutions most fitting. And we each must discover those solutions, understand their appropriatness, and absorb them into the body of information that defines who we are and who we are becoming.

We learn experientially because only then is our reality significantly affected. Others' experiences are helpful to our growth and affirm how similar is our pain, but each of us must make our own choices, take responsible action in our own behalf.

How fortunate that we ware now in a position to make healthy dicisions about our relationships! No longer the victim, we have the personal power to choose how we want to spend our time and with whom. Through active particiapation in all our relationships, we can discover many of the hidden elements in our own natures and develop more fully all the characteristics unique to our personhood. Our growth as recovering women is enhanced in proportion to our sincere involvement within the relationships we've chosen.

I can inform myself about who I am within my relationships. Therein lie the solution to my problems.