The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience.

Alan W. Watts
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  1. The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

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