In the world of spirituality stemming from Eastern cultures and philosophy the higher sentiments are related to divine attributes.
I just wanted to share a few thoughts from my own experience about the Partnership Question. I hope the young man who spoke to me at the conference reads this essay, and I pray that these thoughts will be of some use to you.
[VIDEO] I had written this poem after listening to the difficulties that Sikh women and men had with their appearance and their Sikh identity.
From the data they gathered, Gottman separated the couples into two major groups: the masters and the disasters. The masters were still happily together after six years. The disasters had either broken up or were chronically unhappy...
This is a poem I wrote so that regardless of your appearance, I wanted Sikh men and women to feel beautiful within their own skin. "I dream of his free-flowing beard. His magnificent mane, curled and twisted along his beautiful strong jaw."
Two people have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling and it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves—that is the state of ultimate love.
Nick Hornby once said, “It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, what is it that makes a marriage last (and last)?
One has to learn relationships as one goes by reading about them in various psychological books and good articles. One great place, simply explained, with easy to follow rules, I found to read on relationships is our venerable Gruru Granth.
Guru Amar Das was the third Sikh master. He had a daugher named Bibi Bhani. She was perhaps the one woman in Sikh history who could have become the Guru herself. She did a profound act of devotion one day.