“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.” DesireHumanitySexExistenceRelationshipHumanExistentialBeing HumanOntologyHuman LoveYannarasRelational OntologyLife As Relation Book:Relational Ontology Source: Relational Ontology
“To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.” LoveRelationshipsRelationRepentanceBeingRepentOrthodoxySelf GivingEastern OrthodoxyYannarasMetanoiaEighth Day BooksIntersubjectivityKenoticOrthodox Ontology Book:Variations on the Song of Songs Source: Variations on the Song of Songs
“Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.” LoveHumanityRelationshipsExistenceBeingDifferenceRelatednessYannarasSexual DifferenceBeing In Relation Book:Relational Ontology Source: Relational Ontology