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 kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world’s activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)