"There is only one temple in the world and that is the human body." I really liked thi s quote because it raised awareness that I did not previously have. I thought, "Of course! That makes sense." Everyone had their own set of beliefs and their own ways of worship. And every individual houses everything within their own body. It doesn't matter uf they go to special designated place ti worship, everything happens WITHIN them.
I also really liked the quote, "Marriage is the highest mystery." This struck my because not only is it the highest mystery, but it is also something that almost everyone strives for. I find it interesting to want something that you don't even know how it is going to work out. Wanting marriage isn't like wanting a new car or new clothes because emotions are hardly involved. But to want something that takes so much time and effort and commitment, and to be completely unsure about the outcome seems completely insane...but we do it anyway.
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The truth is that we never know how anything in our lives is going to work out, but if we based all of our decisions on what we don’t know, we’d never do anything. We can’t do what we know because we don’t know, but we can do what we feel. It’s sort of like having faith. Nobody can know with complete certainty that God actually exists, but we can feel it. We can claim that we know for certain and cite reasons why, but when it comes down to it, we don’t really know. That’s why it’s called faith. I think that marriage is faith too. I think we do it because we believe that it is going to work out and we can list reasons why that belief is true. I don’t think anybody goes into a marriage thinking, “Well, I’ll do this for a couple years and then I’ll just get a divorce.” I know I didn’t and that’s exactly what ended up happening. When you love someone, you feel certain and think that anything is possible and you can’t imagine living your life without that person and in virtually all cultures, getting married is the next logical step. Wanting to be with the person you love forever and wanting to share that love in front of friends and family doesn’t strike me as mysterious. I guess I don’t think that marriage itself is really the highest mystery, but rather the ending of a marriage is what is truly mysterious.
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