For someone who has a high degree of awareness, it can be difficult to remain centered in ones own truth in a world that does not value truth and encourages illusion. In all actuality it is more difficult to remain uncentered in denial of self, but it paradoxically appears otherwise. This is the case because lower forms of consciousness will always try to cut you down to their size to not feel separate from you and so that they will not have to grow and be entrained to your higher level.
Egos with their inferiority complex will always try to undermine someone that operates with greater awareness of self beyond human identity. In relationship this can take the form of the higher person consciously trying to elevate the other person, possibly undermining their sovereignty, their free will right to their own truth or delusion; and the other person, usually unconsciously, trying to bring them down to their lower level of operating with less love and less awareness.
From a cosmic perception and especially a human perception, awareness levels can be identified plainly by the degree in which we allow ourselves to love and be loved. And to the degree in which we allow love to be embodied and manifest fully in our lives. Projection and denial of responsibility for your own stuff within relationship is a blatant act of denial of self love. Inherent with this denial of self love is disallowance of receivership of love from another - self sabotage. This will take place when two people are together where one person has less awareness of self and divinity; and when anyone of the two people has a program somewhere that they are unworthy of love, and are afraid of revealing themself because they are not awake yet and realize that they can now reveal their true nature and allow others to see the truth of their beingness.
Of course both people can reject love if neither people are aware of self, but this exploration we are engaging in will explain those relationships as well, as we are all at different levels of awareness from each other. We are all separate expressions of All That Is, with our unique perceptions of reality.
Humility
It may be painful at times, being of a high order, living your life with quantum awareness, with a great sense of self and awareness of true reality, in a world that does not welcome truth. It may be especially painful when you see people that you love continue to be in denial, refusing to grow and unable to comprehend your higher perception of reality. When they push your love away because they unconsciously feel unworthy of it, and to experience some "free will" illusion that they have some control in their lives. When they refuse to awaken and step into the magnificence of their own beingness and there is nothing you can do about it.
This is the great lesson of compassion and patience that all masters learn and must demonstrate; and the lesson of humility, knowing that their perception and level of awareness is dense and less "enlightened", but that they themselves are not. Their awakening process is just behind you from a linear perception.
In these cases we all have gifts for each other. This is a constant awakening process and all of us wake each other up and provide growth for each other. As masters we constantly test each other. In the scenario above, the higher degree person tests the lower by coaxing them to awaken further. The interaction with the lower degree person and the possibilities of immersion in more illusions, tests the higher degree person to maintain humility and compassion and not to succumb to ego perceptions of superiority.
They also test you to remain centered in your truthful awareness without backsliding down to their lower level, falling into power games of control, competition and victimhood; in other words identifying with your suffering and the world of human survival, where no matter what they dish out from the old world perception of reality you stand firmly steadfast in your truth without any need of defense. This is how the master of us all tests each other, how divinity and love tricks us into awakening.
When you are a master, when you have embodied the master you truly are, you see the divinity in everyone. You see your own divinity in the lowliest person test you to see if you will be fooled by appearance and actions and be judgmental, falling into the trap of superiority, its game of trying to resolve the paradox and prove its worth. At the very least you will see the illusion of fear and survival that they exist in and operate from and have compassion for their suffering.
This is how you (the master that you truly are) tests yourself to see how you will react, to see what your free will choice will be - will you follow wherever love leads no matter how dangerous it may look, will you feel the fear and follow love any way. This is how you wake yourself up.
Relationship is the big testing ground. The master of us all specifically puts us into relationships as testing grounds to further awakening. In these accelerated times many beings will be required to enter relationship with someone who is less aware or of greater awareness for the express purpose of accelerating both parties. Are you willing to be tested to your limits through the grandest test of them all - relationship?