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ALL ELEMENTS FOR A LASTING RELATIONSHIP EXPRESSED PROFOUNDLY IN THE BELOW EXCERPT BY (The Mother Mirra Alfas, CWM – Vol 14)

“A lot of crimes would be prevented if people were free in this respect. They would not have to hide things from one another or even commit crimes to be separated. Of course, if they truly love each other they will continue to live together always naturally, without being forced to do so by any law. That is why this ceremony and ritual of marriage is so childish.

Of course the whole idea of marriage is amusing because I consider the thing childish. If a man and a woman love each other and want to live together they can do so without any ceremony. If they want to separate they can also do so freely. Why should people be compelled to stay together when they have ceased to love each other?

To unite your physical lives, your material interests, to become partners in order to face together the difficulties and successes, the defeats and victories of life — that is the very foundation of marriage, but you already know that it is not enough.

To be united in your sensations, to have the same aesthetic tastes and enjoyments, to be moved in common by the same things, one through the other and one for the other — that is good, that is necessary, but it is not enough.

To be one in your deeper feelings, to keep a mutual affection and tenderness that never vary in spite of all the blows of life and can withstand every weariness and irritation and disappointment, to be always and on every occasion happy, extremely happy, to be together, to find in every circumstance tranquillity, peace and joy in each other — that is good, that is very good, that is indispensable, but it is not enough.

To unite your minds, to harmonize your thoughts and make them complementary, to share your intellectual preoccupations and discoveries; in short, to make your sphere of mental activity identical through a widening and enrichment acquired by both at once — that is good, that is absolutely necessary, but it is not enough.

Beyond all that, in the depths, at the center, at the summit of the being, there is a Supreme Truth of being, an Eternal Light, independent of all the circumstances of birth, country, environment, education; That is the origin, cause and master of our spiritual development; it is That which gives a permanent direction to our lives; it is That which determines our destinies; it is in the consciousness of That; that you must unite. To be one in aspiration and ascension, to move forward at the same pace on the same spiritual path, that is the secret of a lasting union.” CRED: ~ The Mother Mirra Alfas, CWM – Vol 14

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I LOVE THIS PIECE/PEACE, HENCE WHY I SHARED IT, BUT GROWING UP IN A CULTURE THAT ENCOURAGES MARRIAGE,  I PERSONALLY WOULDN’T SAY MARRIAGE IS CHILDISH, BUT I RESPECT THE VIEWS OF THE WRITER.. WHO EXPRESSED VITAL TRUTHS OF THE UNIFICATION BETWEEN TWO SOULS. I WILL SAY THE REASONS, APPROACH, ULTERIOR MOTIVES AND MENTALITY SOME HAVE TOWARDS MARRIAGE IS CHILDISH!………….. CRED: MARISA DANIEL ~ MTDVybes

ALL ELEMENTS FOR A LASTING RELATIONSHIP EXPRESSED IN THE ABOVE EXCERPT BY (The Mother Mirra Alfas, CWM – Vol 14) IS WHAT KEEPS THE UNION TOGETHER!