The essential contribution of this task of choosing, valuing and utilizing friendship is that it matures us by helping us become skillful in stating who we are and asking for what we want from friends. The resulting feedback and criticism facilitates the development of emotional control and wise use of resources. Relationship is both the place we learn and the method by which we progress. This trend is being reversed by the growing edge of science, and of psychotherapy in particular, which is rediscovering the primacy of consciousness as the causal force behind the universe, our lives, and our relationships. We need to know how to build relationship and how to use that field of force as an energy to nurture and guide us - it is our primary resource for human evolution and individual spiritual development.
Relationship is an effective agent of change.
It is in relationships that we collaborate with each other to create a better world.