sensuality
grounding into the senses
sensuality
soul. If you attend to your self and seek to come into your own presence, you will find exactly the right rhythm for your life. The senses are generous pathways which can bring you home.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
The idea that if you live your senses, you’ll find your way back to yourself, much like Rilke’s thought on living questions, if you are true to the question, life will inevitably answer it.
sensuality (n.)
mid-14c., sensualite , "the part of man that is concerned with the senses" (now obsolete), also "lust, sinful and passionate emotion," from Old French sensualite "the five senses; impression," from Late Latin sensualitatem (nominative sensualitas ) "capacity for sensation" (in Medieval Latin also "sensuality"), from Latin sensualis ... See more
mid-14c., sensualite , "the part of man that is concerned with the senses" (now obsolete), also "lust, sinful and passionate emotion," from Old French sensualite "the five senses; impression," from Late Latin sensualitatem (nominative sensualitas ) "capacity for sensation" (in Medieval Latin also "sensuality"), from Latin sensualis ... See more
Sensuality - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
In Celtic spirituality, we find a new bridge between the visible and the invisible; this comes to expression beautifully in its poetry and blessings. These two worlds are no longer separate. They flow naturally, gracefully and lyrically in and out of each other. A BLESSING FOR THE SENSES May your body be blessed. May you realize that your body is a
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I love this idea of spirituality binding the sensual in both the invisible and the visible. Expressed through our personhoodm, mind body and soul
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
James Baldwin • The Fire Next Time
I love all the ways we are sensual. I like to smell good, taste everything yummy, feel how alive skin is, listen to sounds of breath and pleasure, see the beauty of flesh and bones. Laugh uncontrollably. Play. Feel alive. My body has the capacity to sense immense pleasure, and as I get older I keep intentionally expanding my sensual awareness and d... See more
If I were living purely from my body, I might have achieved ...
Studying sensuality outside of sexuality will perhaps lead me back to sexuality, rooted in a return of power and control. A return of what I have lost.
To be sensual or sensuous is to be in the presence of your own soul. Wordsworth, careful of the dignity of the senses, wrote that, ‘pleasure is the tribute we owe to our dignity as human beings.’ This is a profoundly spiritual perspective. Your senses link you intimately with the divine within and around you.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
SENSUALISM: Being Sensual is a Lifestyle
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This is very aestheticism meets the sensualist’s life, as a form of devotion, not as performance. This is instinct.
I also believe pleasure generated through our own power should resonate as far into the future as possible. If I eat something that tastes super-delicious but makes me sluggish and tired and sends me into a spiral of body shaming, then that was not a pleasurable experience, no matter how juicy and delicious it was. However, if I eat something fresh
... See moreadrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
“Ultimately, love for the self is the deepest pleasure we deny ourselves. I work daily to be courageous enough to indulge in the purest pleasure of self-love.”
The more I think of self-love, I think of my sensuality and the slow erosion of my sexuality in that realm. I think of the power I have had stolen from me, and why it’s taken me this long to find my way back.