Liberalism’s objections to mythic forms do not apply to formless awareness. Thus liberalism and authentic spirituality can walk hand in hand.
bell hooks argues that our erotic lives are enhanced when men and women can celebrate the penis in ways that don’t uphold macho stereotypes.
“No medium can remove the need for thoughtfulness, artistry and eloquence in the creation of something great.”
Judith Simmer-Brown on the role of desire in Buddhist Tantra: “The intensity of desire can only be liberated by desire itself.”
Former porn-star, now artist and educator, Annie Sprinkle’s real specialty is the public display of a positive attitude toward sex.
According to Rachel Naomi Remen, Integrative Medicine offers the promise of living a good life, even though it may not be an easy life, or even a long life.
“I’ve come to think that experiences of initiation are very common, very ordinary, very subtle. They happen to us all as a natural part of living.”
“I am constantly asked, why pay any attention to any of it? Isn’t this middle brow culture somehow not really spiritual? What a small God, that.”
So perhaps this is an apt time to discover dignity in old age, lest my generation become for a puling exit from the stage of life.
The Shambhala Sun talks to psychiatrist Howard Cutler about The Art of Happiness, the book based on his series of conversations with the Dalai Lama.
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