As many of you know, I see the work we do as providers as something spiritual in nature. I've been reading a wonderful book and wanted to share a few passages with the community. Feel free to comment with your thoughts!
Have a great week everyone!
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Gina Marie

Excerpts from The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love by Thomas Moore:

"It’s often assumed that men and women allow sex to be the brightest shining light in their universe, at least at periods in their lives, simply because they crave certain physical sensations. People talk about wanting novelty in sex as though a new partner or a new position is satisfying only at a purely physical level. But what if we granted ourselves an added level of humanity, and sex a new degree of meaningfulness? What if what we’re searching for and to some degree finding in sex is not purely physical? What if it transcends psychology as well, so that not even interpersonal relationship or human love would adequately explain the intensity of our desire and the importance of these passions in our lives?"

"In sex an inner life of strong emotions and vivid fantasies meets with a real person to create a moment of exceptional intensity when life is full and reason is dim. It is a time when play is paramount and yet when nothing could have more serious implications. Even when sex is not ecstatic or perfect, it takes us to a level far from the mundane. Gaze and touch induce a kind of trance, an altered state of consciousness, a realm of imaginable sensations and events, a separate reality."

"The soul craves such excursions from literal reality, and so it is no mystery that sex is so compelling and enticing. But it is the soul, and not some inanimate body, that feels the hunger and can’t resist the appetite. An altered state like sexual trance is not empty. Much goes on during this excursion away from daily living, though this special activity accomplishes things in the soul that may be quite different from what we aim for in ordinary life. In sex we may subliminally discover many truths about our partner, ourselves, passion and life itself."

"In sex the soul has an unusually powerful opportunity to join body and spirit. Sex focuses our attention, as perhaps nothing else can, on our sensuous presence in this world and on another person, while at the same time it fulfills our desire for emotional and spiritual union with another, for transcendence of our self-consciousness, and for meaningful experience. If our sexuality has soul, the whole range of human experience is contained there."

"What if we could imagine sex as a highly refined part of life capable of transforming everything with its elegance and power? In this sense sex is indeed the most important element in a person’s life because it has the power to transmute everything. If our sexuality is free of anxiety, everything in life may be comfortably creative, but if our sexuality is crude, then the whole of life suffers a parallel lack of refinement."

Thomas Moore