Discipline

"Ecstasy is a discipline."

---Margot Anand

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 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"

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

The Edge

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

---Kurt Vonnegut