Sacred Desire

Intimacy as a tool for Enlightenment

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Let love-making come by itself

Before you move into love, just sit silently together for fifteen minutes holding each other’s hands crosswise. Sit in darkness or in a very dim light and feel each other. Get in tune. The way to do that is to breathe together. When you exhale, she exhales; when you inhale, she inhales. Within two to three minutes you can get into it. Breathe as if you are one organism – not two bodies but one. And look into each other’s eyes, not with an aggressive look but very softly. Take time to enjoy each other. Play with each other’s bodies. Don’t move into love-making unless the moment arises by itself. Not that you make love, but suddenly you find yourself making love. Wait for that. If it does not come, there is no need to force it. It is good. Go to sleep; no need to make love. Wait for that moment for one, two, three days. It will come one day. And when that moment coes, love will go very deep and it will not create the madness it is creating now. It will be a very very silent, oceanic feeling. But wait for that moment; don’t force it. Love is something which has to be done like meditation. It is something which has to be cherished, tasted very slowly, so it suffuses deeply into your being and it becomes such a possessing experience that you are no more there. It is not that you are making love – you are love. Love becomes a bigger energy around you. It transcends you both ... you are both lost in it. But for that you will have to wait. Wait for the moment and soon you will have the knack of it. Let the energy accumulate and let it happen on its own. By and by, you will become aware when the moment arises. You will start seeing the symptoms of it, the pre-symptoms, and there will be no difficulty. Love is like God – you cannot manipulate it. It happens when it happens. If it is not happening, there is nothing to be worried about. ~ Osho - Book: The Orange Book

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I honoured you with each stroke

Every breath was a prayer in gratitude

Your pace was as slow as the sound of leaves

dancing in a soft breeze

to the echo of stillness in a quiet black night

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"When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy. It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then.. we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to un-glove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable." - Mark Nepo

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La Pointe Courte (Agnès Varda, 1956)

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WILD KINDNESS By practicing kindness all over with everyone you will soon come into the holy trance, definite distinctions of personalities will become what they really mysteriously are, our common and eternal blissstuff, the pureness of everything forever, the great bright essence of mind, even and one thing everywhere the holy eternal milky love, the white light everywhere everything, emptybliss, svaha, shining, ready, and awake, the compassion in the sound of silence, the swarming myriad trillionaire you are. — Jack Kerouac

artwork - Gabriel Vormstein, Color Couple II

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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

- Thomas Merton via LazyYogi 

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First, my contours. The outline. Not too fast. Take time to look at me. See how my arms are placed. My hands. 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

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Always keep 2 pieces of paper in your pockets. One says, "I am a speck of dust;" the other, "The world was created for me." - Rabbi Bunim

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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

- Eckhart Tolle via Lazy Yogi

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"We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong.

Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate.

Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, 'This is the problem I want to have.'

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

- Andrew Boyd, "Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe" via Free Will Astrology. Photo by Nicholas Nixon

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If it’s easy, it’s not our edge. If it’s not one hell of a challenge, it’s not our edge. If it doesn’t shake, quake, or break us, it’s not our edge. If it’s easily witnessed, it’s not our edge. If it doesn’t bring up huge resistance in us, resistance that tosses aside therapeutic and spiritual interventions like toothpicks in a hurricane, it’s not our edge. If we think we’re doing shadow-work while we sit relatively intact, it’s not our edge.

~ Robert Augustus Masters