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Ever since the world began, the significant, unique, and the most powerful dimensions of human life and experience is Spirituality. Across the nations, families, marriage, love, and relationships are nurtured by means of spirituality. It is believed spiritual beliefs, practices, readings, and writings have tethered, secured, and nourished families ever since the world came into existence. Spirituality, in general, is a broad concept that refers to the supreme, unsurpassable divine beliefs and practices experienced in our daily life and relationships as well. It is considered as heart and soul of the religion. The two words �spirituality� and �religion� are often misinterpreted allowing the followers to carry a blurred vision of them. Thus, it is important to distinguish the difference between religion and spirituality. Religion is an institutionalized faith system with an organized structure, set of doctrines, practices, and beliefs each community follows. It is widely acclaimed that spiritual writings provide standard set of instructions to the world in order to maintain their personal virtues, relationships, conducts, and family life. Nowadays, families began following multiple approaches to spirituality including religious practices, spiritual writings and so forth. The significant importance of spiritual writings in our daily life is that those writings become the part of our life as and when individuals start following them. In a nutshell, spiritual writings provide a deep-seated spiritual nourishment in the life of an individual thereby allowing individuals attain a balance between their social and personal life. The current chapter addresses the role of spiritual writings on concepts such as love, marriage, and life in general. It examines the impact of spirituality on the notions of love, marriage, and family with special reference to Kahlil Gibran�s �The Prophet�. In a nutshell, the current paper analyzes the meaning of spirituality in socio-cultural context and its vivacious changes in a family life cycle. Based on the secondary literature available, this study aims to come up with unique findings. It is observed that with spiritual wisdom, individuals understand the connection between god, life, love, marriage, family, and relationship. In other words, spiritual writings will exert a greater impact on love, marriage, and family. And the spiritual lines of Kahlil Gibran�s The Prophet on different notions such as love, marriage, family, relationships and so forth will have great influence on the individuals. Tersely, the detailed survey on the topic says that Gibran�s The Prophet that comprises the idealistic spiritual and psychological anecdotes on all the basic aspects of human life, teaches an individual all life lessons that are crucial while living in a community and at the same time aids to lead a peaceful life on earth.