Marriage

Marriage represents, simultaneously, the union of dual identity and the birth of a third. Each of us is a whole that is more than the sum of its parts, but when we find another who compliments us in such a way, we also become part of a larger whole. This is the beginning of family, the beginning of community, and indeed the beginning of Life itself. We continue the pattern.

Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.  It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness.  It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits.  It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity.  It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.

~ Kahlil Gibran