“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?” IfsTogetherSexLossPleasureCreationBuddhismOppositesUnionsOneselfSexualityTemporaryComing TogetherWhat Is LifeYangYin And Yang Author:Frederick Lenz
“Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.” InspirationalPainPleasureConditionsCreationBuddhismSorrowSlaveRise AboveSuccess And FailurePain And Pleasure Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.” PeopleKnowsMeanHelpingTurnsJesusPleasureAnimalRoomsCompassionCreationBuildingCreaturesEatingEthicsStandingBoxesCreatorLocalsConsumersStreamsPlatesDiscipleSteersBerriesHamburgersCalvesBuilding Relationships Author:Leonard Sweet
“Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!” LooksLightEyeDesirePleasureDarknessMysteryCreationShapesAngelBurningGloriousWithin YouBurning Desire Author:Hildegard of Bingen
“All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.” MindArtBeautifulHumanityOrderPleasureCreationIncreaseArchitectureInventionConceptionPencilsNature And Art Book:Thoughts and things at home and abroad Source: Thoughts and things at home and abroad
“The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.” LongArtStrongPleasureTalkingCreationPerformancesVery GoodAestheticVery StrongAnalogiesArt And ScienceCraftsmanship Author:Freeman Dyson
“The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.” UseProcessPleasurePracticeCreationSourceInventionStrategicSubculture Author:Michel Foucault
“We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.” PeopleNeedsGivingHeartJoyPleasureCreationMetsCapacityIncreaseSimplicityDelightBuyingSatisfyingConsumerismDiminishAbsolutely NothingOverconsumptionBasic NeedsLoving RelationshipsFree GiftsBuying Things Author:John Piper