how to live inside erotic intelligence
I sensed that they had a deep understanding of eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom—not just the narrow definition of sex that modernity has assigned to it.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
The subconscious longings of our hearts are aimed and directed elsewhere; our orientation is askew; our erotic compass malfunctions, giving us false bearings. When this happens, the results can be disastrous.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The erotic is embodied awareness with an attention to joy, to savoring every moment—not for stimulation but for liberation.
Sebene Selassie • You Belong: A Call for Connection
In our bottomless craving to reveal what’s unknown, we deprive ourselves of the sensual encounter, the anticipation, and the potential to rejig reality.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
how we support one another is pivotal to our erotic evolution and liberation. We must see the illusions imbedded in our physical body’s memories for what they are, and transcend them into who we already were when we came into this world.
Lee Harrington • Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries
Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects h
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