Daily Meditation: Wednesday, June 4, 2003

In order to justify their impulses and infidelities, some …

06/04/2003

In order to justify their impulses and infidelities, some men and women claim that marriage kills love. No, marriage does not kill love if a man and woman know how to consider each other and learn to discover in one another an expression of the divine world. If they do not seek to know their partner's soul and spirit and to make every sacrifice for them, they must not expect the other's physical body to satisfy them. After all, what is this physical body? As soon as a man dies, he is just a corpse, and his wife does not keep him, but has him buried. Yet she loved her husband, and she still loves him. Yes, but it is the subtle aspect, the life that we love, not matter; and it is the divine aspect, the spiritual body of man, that is alive. The physical body remains what it is. It eventually gets old, and after a while we may find it less pleasant and tire of looking at it. Whereas the inner life is always different, always new, like the water that flows from a spring. It is this water that we love, because it is inexhaustible.