“The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. The one to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wander and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms.” —Albert Einstein
My life changed forever on the morning of November 14, 2007. I was a guest with my wife Ronit on the Oprah Winfrey Show on ABC, an episode titled, “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.” After Oprah described my love story with Ronit as “a date with destiny,” I awakened to the realization that the path leading to our destined meeting with Oprah was already scripted deep in me, early in my life. It dawned on me that all my life, I followed interactive signs and synchronicities with intuitive feelings that guided me without full understanding. The signs often signaled to an approaching destined event, and a culmination of interactive situations leading to my destined encounter. It is as if I unconsciously participated in a motion, unaware of the entire script that has shaped my life. Our appearance on Oprah was no different. It was a significant event in our life that was meant to be.
Three years earlier, destiny united me with my wife Ronit. As a seventeen-year-old boy, I saw the newly crowned Miss Israel (Ronit) in a photo in a magazine, and I felt mysteriously connected to her sad, green and blue eyes. Those eyes beckoned to me from afar. Without understanding it, I knew I would connect with her someday. Forty years later, I did.
In retrospect, whenever I interacted with people and situations that led to my destined encounters, I always felt like I was drawn without full clarity to something bigger than myself—like a calling of the divine. Today as a psychologist, a soul mate, and an intimacy communicator, I still wonder what would have become of my life had I ignored destiny’s magic of hidden possibilities, and the power of my dreams.
