Eros
Sex is an art form, a prayer, a way of contemplating and communing with infinite love, naked, unafraid, raw, and totally open. Sex is a means for expressing this mystery of love through the music of your body.
David Deida • Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh

in the ecstatic embrace of sexual love, we are taken far beyond ourselves, released from the cramp of the separate self, delivered at least temporarily into timeless, spaceless, blissful union with the wondrous beloved: and what better definition of spiritual release is there than that? We all taste God, taste Goddess, taste pure Spirit in those mo
... See moreDavid Deida • Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh

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
