“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.” IfsWayMeanSelfDesireValuesObjectsExpressionFitIntegrityDiversityConnectionsSacredOneselfSexualityHonestlyOne WayImpulseRecognizingArenaOrientationMisused Book:Dreaming the Dark Source: Dreaming the Dark
“How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.” MenSoulTurnsGirlCareersSacredAffectionDeedsImpulseHeroicMartyrFrivolousSteadfastAnthemDeathless Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.” WayWantPersonsSoulSpiritualDesireOriginalsSacredAddictionDareSensualImpulseYearningTranscendenceDegeneratesImplicit Author:Mark Epstein
“All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.” ArtMomentsArtistHoursArt IsBlessedSacredImpulseSacred Moments Author:Caspar David Friedrich
“There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open the door to a sacred intent. With this sacred intent, love making becomes spiritual and holy. You open the gateway to total joy and you embrace the divine, erotic impulse. So breathe and relax. This is tantra.” BigsSpiritualJoyEasyGraceDoorsMysteryDivineHolyBreathsSacredEmbraceBreatheImpulseRelaxEroticLove MakingTantraGatewaysAllowance Author:Janet Robertson
“The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.” GivingDoneCharacterReligionPracticeEthicsSacredHarmTheologyIgnorantImpulseSanctionsLofty Book:Religion and Science Source: Religion and Science
“The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.” DoePlaySpiritCultureSocialBornGrewCivilizationPureGrew UpSacredCompetitionDancingAriseImpulseRitualPhases Author:Johan Huizinga
“Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.” DesireRealizingSpaceEgoSacredAbsenceRealizationImpulseTiesIntimateAspirationAspireTime And SpaceInnateLimitlessFullnessVibrationsLiberatedPlenitude Author:Daniel Odier
“How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred.” MindSometimesBodyDesireAwarenessDivineSacredAssumingNotionAriseImpulseOur ThoughtsMind SetProfaneMind BodySqueezingPreconceived NotionsRelationships And Life Author:David Simon