How Can You Build Meaningful Relationships?

While strolling along the river this morning, and reflecting on turbulence in relationships, these thoughts came to mind.
PREAMBLE TO BUILDING MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS

Desires foster hope as well as expectations. Buddha attributes pain and suffering to desires (of taking).
Expectations create excitement through anticipation, anxiety and stress through uncertainty, fear and anger through insecurity, and disappointment and sorrow [...]

Meditation: What’s the Point?

Every soul has an innate desire to be united with the source of all being and, through this desire, to set itself free from all bonds and lower levels of desires that prevent it from achieving its highest potential. This also is referred to as a state of resonance, when the subject and object vibrate [...]