Today many people who are contemplating marriage are asking themselves: How can I be sure that this is true love and not mere infatuation? How can I be sure it will be lasting? Is this love or only a counterfeit of the real thing?
Let us ask ourselves: Can we truly love anyone without first of all seeing him as he is in true being, divine Love's perfect expression, therefore truly loving and wholly lovable? No, we cannot. Because this is true, genuine love is an unfoldment, not a sudden impulse or passing whim. Rather, it is an emanation of spiritual Love and is based on mutual understanding, not physical attraction.
A happily married woman of the writer's acquaintance, after more than two decades of' marriage, declared, "We love each other more with each passing year." Such is the love that unfolds and grows—and never stops unfolding—with each succeeding year. For it reflects in some measure that Love which is eternal. Nothing less than such love is really a sound basis for marriage.
