Listen

"Sit, be still, and listen...because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof."

---Rumi

Discipline

"Ecstasy is a discipline."

---Margot Anand

Take Aim

"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."

---Joel Hawes

Focus

"If it's in focus, it's pornography. If it's out of focus, it's art."

---Linda Hunt as 'Billy Kwan' in the 1982 film "The Year of Living Dangerously"

Now

"Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now."

---from "Suite Judy Blue Eyes", by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Devotion

"I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life. I had and have no guilt whatsoever when it comes to pleasuring myself."

---Gloria Stewart, the actress who played 'The Old Lady' in James Cameron's "Titanic".

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

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