Single and Strong

It is only as a single that one has the opportunity to focus intensely on self-improvement. When you enter a marriage, that time is over, and your focus shifts away from yourself. Those who are single should take advantage of that time to radically change, and become better. Those who do will inevitably attract a better partner. Everyone wants the perfect mate, but few want to earn it. Take advantage of being single: make yourself better and better, so that when you meet your future spouse, you are a better person than you were before, and your chances of entering a fruitful marriage are much greater. Do you want your future spouse to meet the you that is weak and needy, afflicted with so much degeneration? Or do you want them to meet the you that is conquering those defects, and becoming better every day?

Learn to be strong alone, and you will bring that strength to your future marriage. Those who are strong when single are strong always, whether married or single. Those who believe only a marriage will make them strong are confused and mistaken.

How do you become strong as a single? Eliminate your defects. To do so, you must become very skillful with:

Preparing for Marriage

In ancient times, it was understood that our youth and time as a single was precious, as it is the time for us to prepare ourselves for marriage. Those who do not prepare fail. Many marriages fail simply because one or both persons were not strong as a single; they mistakenly thought only a marriage would make them strong.

Man and woman are two columns that hold up a temple. Each column must be strong on its own, able to stand alone. Only two strong columns can support the weight of a temple; if one is weak, or both are weak, they will break, and the temple will fall.

Being Single

The three greatest events in our life are birth, marriage, and death.

We enter physical life alone, and alone we leave it. Two of the three events are related to being single; we have to manage them ourselves, alone, and prepare for them when alone.

Life as a single is essential for our development.