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The personal connection between two people is something quite common. We coincide with someone in common hobbies or interests, in ways of think or in ways of understanding life. However, the deep spiritual affinity between two individuals is rare and unusual. When this happens it speaks of two soul mates.

Such affinity is not a question that can be explained in an objective and precise way, since it is a shared feeling as mysterious as love itself.

A metaphor to talk about love

The label "soul mate" is normally used to indicate that a man and a woman are so close and intertwined that it is as if their soul is one. It is understood that between the two there is a attraction and a wish. However, there is something else, as if words were not necessary between them, as if they already knew each other before they met.

The synchrony between soul mates is presented as a mystery that cannot be explained with conventional reasoning. Sometimes it has been said that the two souls were predestined and that when they met, they recognized each other.

The idea of ​​a soul mate is very far from the concept of passionate love

Passionate love has a number of ingredients, such as intense desire, debauchery and a dose of madness. However, when we talk about this level of relationship we are facing a love relationship of another dimension. It is a pleasant but not destructive love, it is talking to the loved one as if one were talking to himself, it is wanting the same as the other.

Dorine and André's love story

The book "Letter to D" by the Austrian philosopher André Gorz is a long love letter in which the Author addresses his wife Dorine after discovering the serious disease degenerative that she suffers from. The book tells the real love story of a couple through sixty years of union. According to the author himself, both were linked by an invisible link.

At the end of the letter, his author recalls that he and his wife had expressed their desire to be together again if they had a second life. The bodies of André and Dorine were found together on September 22, 2007.

The possible key to the mystery

The literature He has tried to explain the love and connection of soul mates with stories like those of Romeo and Juliet. However, knowledge of the brain can provide relevant information on this matter.

In fact, there is a hormone associated with love, oxytocin. In the pituitary gland of our brain, oxytocin is produced and from there it goes to the bloodstream that runs throughout the body. Neuroscientists consider that the deep emotional ties associated with love basically depend on the intervention of this hormone.

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