The universe always has work for those who are qualified to perform it. It is impossible to escape fact, and it is impossible to make any unreality permanent. Children are usually attracted to parents whose level of consciousness is similar to their own, or who offer the opportunities for the payment of certain specific type of Karma. Each human being is his own priest, and only the obligations he makes to himself are real. Under our present social psychology, mismating is the general order of things.
Successful marriages are the exception.
If the home fails within itself, it is the worst form of stupidity to force uncongenial people to remain under the same roof for the sake of conventions. For two people to live together, under such conditions, is more dangerous to the spiritual life than an amicable and intelligent termination of the whole affair. The purpose of philosophy is to bring not arguments but fuller understanding, deeper appreciation, and fuller, more perfect tolerance. Developing more and more inward consciousness, the aspirant to spiritual things lives less and less in the material world, demands little from it, and is not deceived by appearances. A man can live spiritually in this generation if he will make spirituality the purpose of his living and will sacrifice to that purpose less worthy aims.