Supporting someone on their spiritual journey

What I've found worked for me with both partners and friends is to both make sure I give them plenty of space to grow and let them know I'm interested in their journey. Sometimes I really enjoyed was finding topics we could both study that would be helpful to us, and then look at several different cultural or religious approaches to that one topic in comparison to each other. (Examples: meditation, divination, ritual, art). This works for me because it lets me both be involved with the other person's journey and working alongside them rather than trying to actually instruct or push them along... and sometimes you find truth or insight in unexpected places. It helps if you start with something that neither of you really are experts in, so that you can start out with that feel of "learning alongside each other" instead of your partner comparing themselves to you unfavorably. If you can't think of a topic you don't have enough experience with, then choose to study cultures you don't know much about, or a specific method you haven't used much. That's just what came up off the top of my head, I'll try to think of more advice. :P

Hi sedel, It is true that we are not all at the same place on our spiritual journey, and we must all understand that. We are not to judge another. Your husband should not be discouraged, he is where he should be right now. Be patient with him, cheer him on, so to speak. Blessings.

The core of the spiritual journey is the basic desire to know what we are. We make a mistake of identifying with things that we are not, and that causes all the suffering of the world. The only solution to false belief is the truth, the truth of what we really are. The spiritual journey is seeking an answer to that question. From that it becomes painfully obvious that no one can ever really provide the answer for another. We are each unique in our individual existences, and the same at the core of who we really are but we have to get there through our individual expressions of Spirit. We can support, we can point, we can remind, but we can never take that journey for another. No one can give you what you already are, and no one can be you. The best support I have found, from my own experience, is to make space for another to process the journey their own way and never make the mistake of thinking that my method will work for them. My advice would be, give your husband space, cheer his efforts, and listen, all the time knowing that only he can do this for himself, and in truth he already is the truth.