One married man told me that he and his wife spend an hour each morning in the form of contemplation facing each other with eyes closed. As a result, after each hour they experience a union of hearts and a love for each other that far exceeds anything they had ever known before, even when they were romantically in love. I must add these two have become experts in the art of contemplation and of silencing the mind.
— Anthony de Mello, Sadhana