Friends and Family as Living Spiritual Metaphors

Your own consciousness is able to use the environment around you to attract living metaphors — for the issues that you face in your personal growth process. These living metaphors are often our friends and families. And, we attract them to us because we can learn from them, and vice versa. They will often demonstrate qualities in us that we do not want to acknowledge in ourselves, while also possessing good points that we could also learn a great deal from. The whole game is to try to accept and forgive them for what they are doing that annoys us — as this seriously aids in one’s ability to forgive the self. Interacting with them is sort of like a waking dream, as there are many symbolic archetypes playing themselves out in these situations.

from the channel of Archangel Michael in David Wilcock's book The Michael Prophecies, Book One, p 259