What is my partner’s function in our common process?

"It is the hardest thing to see clearly what is closest to you. To see fine detail at a great distance is, by comparison, easy. If you see only the physical forms of those around you you will never understand what the interaction should be.
"Answers do not come suddenly, they evolve. They emerge from mushín,* where they exist perfect yet in constant development and gradually fill in gaps in your understanding like a harmony which was always there but may not be perceived until enough has manifested to be unmistakable. By intuition or insight you might possibly have known what the chord was about to be: if so, it will be different from what it would have been if you had not known.
Your partner knows what s/he owes you. In due course s/he will repay. Fast/slow are mere words defining a human perspective. You have been sustained. What defines progress for the soul is aligning yourself with your true direction. You don’t have to be in the perfect position to start.
"If you wanted to get in the ‘perfect position’ you would have to go sideways not forwards, and as a result it would no longer be perfect. If your eye is on the pole star you can alter your pathway by degrees and so not lose momentum.
"Energy is not something you make, it is a psychic reaction arising from the components of a situation, of which you are one. Ideal surroundings are often too pure to provide much interaction. Don’t ask for peace, ask for complementary companions.
"It is never wrong to ask, but don’t seek blessing on predetermined schemes. If you feel a scheme is right, act, but keep it open and be prepared to distinguish in your own mind between desirable modifications and yielding to immediate need. The latter always seems intense, but if you can resist its importunacy you will be able to make any necessary modifications to your flight path coolly and without needing subsequently to recorrect your correction! Always have in mind the psychic dimension where thought is dynamically perfect, you will see ways to improve the world by drawing thru more of it and so delight those who cannot see for themselves."

*> "Ideas either of imperfection as a stage on the way to perfection, or the rejection of perfection have to be seen in terms of musó, the Buddhist idea of unchanging formlessness behind all phenomena. In this state, mushín, there is neither acceptance nor rejection. Ideas come out of a world that existed before Dualism – or rather, not before or after, but in a world where dualism is irrelevant.
> "Buddhists [say] that the world of beauty is our home and that we are born with a love for home. To long for beauty, therefore, is the same as to long for home. But home, as we know, is a world of non-dual entirety: everything that has been divided yearns to be reunited; everything has, so to speak, been divided in order to long to be one again."
> Soetsu Yanagi, The Unknown Craftsman