I’ve just finished reading Marianne Williamson’s Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships. I loved it. It’s been on the shelves for more than ten years, but I hadn’t seen it before.
She writes in prose, but it seems like poetry, partly because of all the beautiful prayers, but partly because that’s just her style. Taste this.
Therapy, spiritual practice, prayer, meditation, men’s groups, women’s groups, seminars, retreats, alone time, tears, writing letters, doing ritual, processing with friends, sweat lodges, healing techniques, going to church, going to synagogue, going to the ashram, going to the mosque, attending support groups, doing the twelve steps, burning incense, making lists, making amends, journaling, doing service, creative visualization, saying affirmations – God knows they all help, and by now, God knows we’ve done them all. But there’s something altogether different that happens when the one you love stands before you and says, “I will descend into the fire with you, and come out on the other side. I see it all and I can take it all. I love it all. Let’s hunker down and do the work together.”
Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships,
page 177
And that, for me, captures the essence of this book: if we are in an intimate relationship, we can help ourselves and our loved one by working together rather than singly. Together, we can reach higher than we ever dreamed possible.
If you’ve read it before, read it again. If you haven’t ever read this book, you have a treat in store.
