The Sacred Dance: Spiritual Opportunities of Marriage

Have you ever longed for something more in marriage? Even if your relationship is solid and generally happy, you may occasionally glimpse a deeper dimension you'd like to experience more often. The Sacred Dance shows how, with practical suggestions illuminated by vivid examples.

The Sacred Dance will help you ...
* Recognize the spiritual significance of everyday married life
* Turn conflicts into spiritual opportunities
* Rediscover the soulful partnership you glimpsed when you first fell in love
* Develop Five Qualifications needed to make your marriage a spiritual path
* Claim the spiritual potential of your marriage with or without your partner's collaboration

While founded in the Christian tradition, The Sacred Dance does not demand belief in religious dogma. Nor does it require any major upheaval in your lifestyle. You ll learn how small shifts in attitude and modest adjustments in behavior can strengthen your marriage, enrich your spirituality, and enhance the intimate bond with your mate.

The Sacred Dance portrays a practical spirituality of everyday married life. It shows how marriage provides ideal conditions for spiritual vocation: a disciplined way of life that builds virtue and prompts spiritual awakening.

Marriage presents unique spiritual opportunities because our mates and God reach out to us in similar ways. Both solicit love, intimacy, surrender, integrity and more. The Sacred Dance reveals how to draw on the spiritual power of marriage to expand our capacity to give and receive love.

Quotes from The Sacred Dance:

Your relationship with God is likely no closer than your best relationship with another person. (p 22)

Like skydiving, surrender to love requires the ability to resist panic in the face of danger, staying alert and composed, even as we plunge into the unknown. (p 24)

In marriage, we learn how to love our (closest) neighbor as ourselves. Doing so, we discover how to love God. (p 37)

The glory of creation is nowhere more evident than in your mate s body. (p 59)

Nothing else can substitute for spending unstructured time together with your mate. (p 112)

We spark the magic in marriage not by dutiful effort, polite restraint or lofty spiritual ambition, but by small acts of imagination and courage. (p 155)