Listen

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

---Rumi

Video Link: "Performing Males" blog, naked boxers

performing males: Naked guys boxing

Exposure

"What you see, you become."

---Tom Bianchi (from the Vedas)

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"

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

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

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

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"

Yesterday

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

---Farmer's Almanac, 1995