Spiritual
Some maintain that 'falling in love in the truest sense of the phrase, not just infatuation...is really the closest most of us come to seeing life in its spiritual form'.
Others would take the view that - in the majority of instances, at least - 'the temporary collapse of ego boundaries that constitutes falling in love...is a genetically determined instinctual component of mating behaviour', and so that 'falling in love has little to do with purposively nurturing one's spiritual development'.
Both standpoints could perhaps agree with Eric Berne: 'Love is a sweet trap from which no one departs without tears'.
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Famous quotes containing the word spiritual:
“The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“There is spiritual laughter
Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
Of angels.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)