My own understanding is that man had his first glimpses of awakening, of meditation, in moments of lovemaking—nowhere else. It was only in moments of lovemaking that human beings realized for the first time that so much bliss is possible.
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“This describes a deeply participatory practice I call relational mysticism. Instead of seeking realization in seclusion or by retreating from ordinary life, we create a living practice that remains constant even while we engage with the quotidian demands of work, family, community, and culture. It is a spiritual practice of embodiment across the personal and transpersonal domains. We awaken within the context of the world and the contemporary marketplace, not apart from them. It is, therefore, a deeply immersive, co-creative, procultural impulse in which we are led by our love of humanity and our belongingness to it to care for one another and for the world—both its beautiful and its difficult parts. As cultural mystics, we study the book of life.”
― Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World
― Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World
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