Excerpt from Amy Edelstein’s book Love, Marriage & Evolution: Chapter 6 Some of us may be with partners who share the exact evolutionary context that we do, and some of us may be with partners who pursue a different spiritual path. The latter is not necessarily an obstacle, as long as the expectations are clear and there is mutual respect … Read More
Finding Fulfillment
Excerpt from Amy Edelstein’s book Love, Marriage & Evolution: Chapter 5 If you look up synonyms for fulfillment you find words like contentment, completion, success, and satiation. It calls to mind happiness, gratitude, and joy, being whole and complete, enriched and satisfied. We can all experience a more fulfilling, satisfying, and liberated relationship in our intimate partnerships, and through that … Read More
Signs of Success: Fearlessness
Excerpt from Amy Edelstein’s book Love, Marriage & Evolution: Chapter 4 There’s a certain type of anxiety that post-modernity breeds in our psyches. The more we become rooted in a spiritually awakened evolutionary worldview, the more that anxiety will diminish. Some of the signs of success couples have been thrilled to see emerge when they consciously embrace the context we’ve … Read More
Signs of Success: Freshness
Excerpt from Amy Edelstein’s book Love, Marriage & Evolution: Chapter 4 Some time ago a woman who’d been married for only a year but had been pursuing this work with me for a number of years described a moving experience of the unfamiliarity of her new relationship while simultaneously feeling a profound ease with her husband. A sense of longevity … Read More
Shared Agreements for a Shared Life
Excerpt from Amy Edelstein’s book Love, Marriage & Evolution: Chapter 3 We depend on our partners for so many things and we share so much together. Some people feel that the romantic context is our arena for personal work—that because we’re so involved with each other, our partners are the best people to use as our mirrors and work out … Read More
Love & Alignment
Excerpt from Amy Edelstein’s book Love, Marriage & Evolution: Chapter 2 When it comes to love between people in a context of spiritual realization, there’s no single recipe for how to be. Love is based more on alignment with our deepest understanding and greatest care, than it is on how we happen to feel at any particular moment. That’s a … Read More
Can You Leave Too Much Space?
Excerpt from Amy Edelstein’s book Love, Marriage & Evolution: Chapter 2 Occasionally, when I start speaking about big perspectives, people express concern that this may trigger alienation in their relationship. “Can you leave your partner so much space that you lose connection with them?” When the space we give our partners is inspired by an evolutionary perspective, it is motivated … Read More