Directly

"If you cannot directly face your sexuality, you will never discover your true spirituality. Your earthly spirit leads to discovering your heavenly spirit. Look at what created you to discover what will immortalize you."

--Taoist White Tigress Manual

Blow

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows stuffed. I want the culture of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."

--- M.K. Gandhi

Skill

"Is sex dirty? Not if it's done right."

---Woody Allen

Ecstasy

"Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction, don't let any prude tell you otherwise."

---St. Teresa of Avila

Self-transcendence

"By my inner firmness I have caused my seed to remain stationary in the middle of the Lingam. Thus it is always fruitful, ever ready. This is the power of self-transcendence."

--Skanda Purana

The Living One

"His disciples asked, 'When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see you?' Jesus answered, 'When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your garments and place them under your feet like little children and tread on them, then you will see the son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid.'"

---The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

New Skin

"Sometimes snakes can't slough. They can't burst their own skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern.
It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don't care what happens to you, so long as you do get out. It also needs a real belief in the new skin. Otherwise you are likely never to make that effort. Then you gradually sicken and go rotten and die in the old skin."

---D.H. Lawrence

Freedom

"The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful."

---Alan Cohen

Thinking

"There is nothing either good or bad but that thinking makes it so."

---Shakespeare

Attitude

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

---Herm Albright

Perseverance

"We go on. Because it's the hard thing to do. And we owe ourselves the difficulty."

---Nikki Giovanni

I Am

"I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than anyone else's."

---Star Trek's "Mr. Spock"

Forbidden

"What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his notebook, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!"

---Henry David Thoreau

Stuff

"Our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."

---Samuel Johnson


"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth not."

---Akhenaton, Egyptian pharoah


"Manifest plainness. Embrace simplicity. Reduce selfishness. Have few desires."

---Lao Tzu

Normal

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

---Ellen Goodman

Habitual Nakedness

"Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It only becomes so when preceded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane.."

---Dr. Marylyn J. Horn, "The Second Skin: An Interdisciplinary Study of Clothing"

The Body

"The church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta."

---Eduardo Galeano, "Windows on the World"

Evolution

"Kind prince," said the master, "an individual's approach to sexuality is an indication of his level of evolution."

--The Complete Works of Lao Tzu: Tao Teh Ching & Hua Hu Ching. Translation & elucidation by Hua-Ching Ni

Forward

"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"

---John Lennon

The Summit

"To delight in the human body without shame, to enjoy it without adulteration, is no simple human prerogative: it comes only at the summit of a high culture."

---Lewis Mumford

Yesterday

"It's never too late to be what you might have been."

---Farmer's Almanac, 1995

Magnitude

"The universe is constantly seeking to prove false your sense of inadequacy and replace it with confidence in your magnitude."

---Alan Cohen

The Path

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

---Ralph Waldo Emerson