Partnering Quotes

“The basic theme in all ten challenges is the underlying challenge to main the connection in your primary relationship. What must you do on a day-to-day basis to maintain the connection to your partner? First, you must make your relationship—and this connection—a priority. Second, when you feel uncomfortable with your partner or the relationship, or when you sense your connection weakening, don't ignore your feelings. Third, and perhaps the most important, ingredient in the recipe for a healthy, intimate, and loving relationship is time. The best way to meet all the challenges to relationship is to take time for one another and for your relationship.”
― Hal Stone, Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship

“Sexuality without energetic linkage, or intimacy, is ultimately unsatisfying...Linkage carries the juice of the relationship and when it disappears, there is always something missing in the sexual connection.”
― Hal Stone, Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship

“When we link energetically with choice and awareness, a soul connection is made. We begin to develop a new kind of sensing in which the visible and invisible worlds become as one. The world of spirit begins to open to us through the path of relationship.”
― Hal Stone, Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship

“The key here is that each of us must learn to feel our own vulnerability so that we can feel the vulnerability of our partners. This deepens connections. Embracing our vulnerability is a very threatening thing to do in relationship because it means meeting the other person without defenses.”
― Hal Stone, Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship

“We must also be willing to take time to nourish connection that exists between our partners and ourselves.”
― Hal Stone, Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship

“The first principle of partnership, you must have both love and a commitment to the mutual exploration of consciousness in order to convert your relationship to a partnering model.”
― Hal Stone, Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship

“The idea of surrender in relationship is not to another person but to the process of relationship itself.”
― Hal Stone, Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship