Undisguised

"I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,: I am mad for it to be in contact with me."

---Walt Whitman

Three Stages

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident."

---Arthur Schopenhauer

Ocean of Truth

"I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered."

---Isaac Newton

The Field

"Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

---Rumi

Radical

"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made us."

---Jean-Paul Sartre

photo: sadhus, "The Naked Saints of India"

Sexy

"From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it."

---Bette Davis

Indecent

"Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature!--ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent."

---Walt Whitman

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

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

Freedom

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

---Alan Cohen