When two people decide to approach life as a path of evolution, their relationship is dharmic. You and your beloved are walking a path never walked in exactly the same way by anyone else who has ever lived. You do not take a breath, think a thought, have a wisp of feeling that existed before, and the intimacy you build together will never be known again. Countless paths exist — as many as there are people in the world — and yet, like an invisible guiding thread, each path must follow the Way of living that leads to spirit.
— Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love