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Plato

The twin-soul concept is not new. In their wonderful book, Twin Souls, Patricia Joudry and Maurie Pressman, M.D. tell us that Plato described it 2,500 years ago. What follows is his description about this magical state of mind, heart, and soul...
"…and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight even for a moment.
If Hephaestus, son of Zeus, were to ask the pair; 'do you desire to be wholly one, always day and night to be in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt you into one and let you grow together, so that being two you shall become one, and after your death in the world beyond you will still be one departed soul instead of two—I ask whether this is what you lovingly desire?'—and there is not a man or woman of them who, when they heard the proposal, would not acknowledge that this melting into one another, this becoming one instead of two, was the very expression of their ancient need. And the reason is that human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love."
It seems that when each of us separated into our male and female halves long ago, the soul knew, and still knows, that the rejoining of its incomplete self would inevitably take place.
The desire for completion doesn't stop there. What the soul really wants is not only reunion with itself through twin half union, but the original feeling of ONEness it had with other souls and its Source that existed at the very beginning of creation. This craving for the original intimacy will not stop until it is fully satisfied. We have as long as we want to make it happen. But it will happen.