Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses, but rather where we can safely let them go. It takes strength of character to truly delve into the mystery of an intimate relationship, because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery, an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation into the higher Self. Only then can we know an enchantment that lasts.

Her other books include THE AGE OF MIRACLES EVERYDAY GRACE A WOMAN'S WORTH ILLUMINATA HEALING THE SOUL OF AMERICA A COURSE IN WEIGHT LOSS and THE GIFT OF CHANGE. She has publiMarianne Williamsond ten books including four New York Times #1 bestsellers. In every heart there is the power to do it.

She has publiMarianne Williamsond ten books including four New York Times #1 bestsellers. Her other books include THE AGE OF MIRACLES EVERYDAY GRACE A WOMAN'S WORTH ILLUMINATA HEALING THE SOUL OF AMERICA A COURSE IN WEIGHT LOSS and THE GIFT OF CHANGE. A paragraph from that book beginning "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.