Enchanted Love by Marianne Williamson

Author:Marianne Williamson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

So open your mouth and take this candy. It is very sweet and it will fill you up. Then, if you do not eat dinner, it will be a very good thing. You do not need dinner. What you need is my sweetness, as I need yours.

We will eat dinner later, when it has become irrelevant.

Soul and personality breathe life into each other. Personality without soul is dry and heavy, but soul without strength of personality can be leaky and lightweight. The integration of the two is a spiritual art form.

My falling madly in love with you is a function of my soul. Yet the fact that I trust myself to surrender to the experience—because I know I won’t do anything stupid, that I will not shirk my worldly responsibilities or abdicate my own strength—is because I have confidence in my personality. Often, people avoid psychological work, thinking their soulfulness makes up for any personality “outs.” Or conversely, people avoid tending to their own souls because, hey, they’re so psychologically hip, who needs divine illumination?

Enchanted intimacy demands mastery in both areas and harmony between them. We are both human and angel, regular guy and mythical king, earth mother and good witch. We are sexual partners having a good time, as well as priests and priestesses opening the doors to sacred realms. Forget one, and you miss the power. Forget the other, and you miss the fun.

If our personalities are honed, but our souls are unprepared, then there might be all kinds of good coming out of a relationship, but there will not be enchantment. On the other hand, if souls are willing, but psyches are unschooled, then the relationship will be splattered with psychic blood soon enough. We enter a tunnel at the beginning of love, functioning as best we can. But we exit the tunnel having been transformed, or we must one day go back and enter again. We are on this earth with work to do, and relationships are like laboratories where the work gets done. Without that work, there is no growth. Being open to work on ourselves, and being open to relationships, amounts ultimately to the same thing. What situation are we ever in that does not involve a relationship in some way?

Some of the most important work we do on romantic relationships is when we’re not in them. How we think about love when it is not yet standing in front of us does much to create what it will be when it is. If we’ve got negative thoughts about intimacy when we’re alone, those thoughts are not going to miraculously change when an intimate partner gets here—unless we look at them and let them go. Otherwise, those thoughts will run rampant over a new relationship the way weeds grow rampant over new growth in a garden.

Our fears take many forms in the face of love. Sometimes we feel we’re damaged goods of sorts, and who would want us anyway? Thoughts like that can keep love from even entering.

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