The Natural Evolution of Relationships

"As my understanding deepens, I find myself less interested in maintaining certain relationships. They’re drifting away naturally, but I feel guilty about not formally addressing it. Rupert says: ‘As your understanding deepens and matures, your interests change, what you want to do with your time and energy changes, and therefore the people you want to spend time with change. You find you don’t have quite so much in common with some people when your understanding has diverged. It may be appropriate to formalise or discuss it, or you might find yourself naturally drifting apart. It’s not necessary to verbalise it – you just find yourself falling out of touch. As you make new friends that share your interests, you may lose old friends. That’s natural. Most friendships that have fallen away in my life haven’t been formalised – we’ve just fallen out of touch as our journeys diverged.’"

From event 05 - 12 October, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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