Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex

Through your daily round, you seek to approximate the truth of who you are that you have lost touch with. This drama of approximation is the story of your life. You never quite succeed like you hope to.

To feel fully is to open fully. Feel your disease fully, like a mother feeling an infant’s needs, or like a golfer feeling the wind, distance, and direction as he swings to hit the ball. Open and feel. Feel and open. As openness, your actions spring from your depth.

When a person falls in love, she becomes radiant. She shines with love. Her eyes sparkle. Her skin glows. This is because love is what light feels like.

Regardless of what you do, your life will be briefly intense and quickly forgotten, seemingly important and not quite satisfying—a fleeting memory of pleasure and pain, gain and loss, health and disease, love and…

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Sex can become the doing of love with your entire body. Sexually, and in every moment throughout the day, you can do love by opening out, feeling everybody, inhaling the entire moment full of pain and pleasure, and exhaling love to all from your heart as you go through your motions as love.

True freedom means freedom as. True freedom is to feel fully and be alive as love, feeling as this entire moment, opening just as this moment is.

The fact is, feeling good or bad in response to others is natural and inevitable. The trouble starts when you allow your emotional response and mental judgments to result in heart-closure and separation. When you clench your belly, close your heart, and pull away from others, then you are actively creating unlove and suffering. It’s one thing to be

In intimacy, most men are attracted to open with a lover’s radiance and into-the-body-inviting energy. Most women are attracted to open with a lover’s depth of feeling and strength of conscious presence. This is true while making love and also in the middle of an intimate conflict.

Some people have felt the incomparable ecstasy of achieving their wildest dreams, winning millions of dollars in a lottery or garnering a Nobel Prize. Many mothers have held newborn infants to their breasts, overwhelmed in the bliss of unimaginable love. These kinds of moments are what make life utterly deluding.