“In every bank there is a door to a vault. Inside the vault lies gold. In each of us there is such a door, and an enchanted love is the key to unlock it. When someone truly makes the journey with you, when they try to understand your dreams, when someone truly respects your goals, when they truly hear your feelings, when someone truly stands at your side, when someone can laugh and cry with you with equal ease, when someone invites you to surrender all inhibitions and you know the invitation is safe, when someone honestly thinks you’re gorgeous, when someone recognizes your bravery and salutes you for it, when someone has compassion for your wounds, when someone forgives you regularly while indulging you rarely, your molecules transform.
And therein lies the mystery of love.
Yet even then, when such a miracle happens, its light will diminish if we do not commit to its continued shining. Lightening strikes, but we are at choice whether or not to harness the power of its electricity. We will meet who we are supposed to meet, as the meeting itself is ordained by God. But what we do with the relationship is entirely up to us. Enchanted love, under the direction of God’s spirit, is both a path to and an example of divine illumination.”
Marianne Williamson, Enchanted Love, The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships, p. 211-212.
