If the truth be told the experience of bliss is not over rated and available in doses in varying ways, yet not attainable through seeking and striving for it. However it is always with us as part of the melody of our make up in being.
The little I know of the work begins with thinking and action in testing daily, yet one of these experiments is to ask for guidance, and accepting that there is an Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent essence that cares immeasurably for All who are here.
I say Test, because I know not, and can only endeavor to know of what is in my own realm of experience.
One thing that has become a useful tool for testing is a sense of humor. It seems one thing that can be lost very quickly, yet its elusive terrain is essential to well being. It helps set a stage for ones ability to see through the daily subterfuge of experimenting.
I offer these quotes after much ado the world makes about Sex and how it is constantly interpreted in the Original Sin in the parable of the "The Book Genesis." This interpretation permeates our culture. I seek here not to get into possible and inevitable misinterpretations of this parable; I prefer to leave one with a tease and I usually do my best to leave humor to the professionals so here you go;
"There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."
"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."
Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915)
"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."
Alex Comfort
"I used to be a virgin, but I gave it up because there was no money in it."
Marsha Warfield
"A terrible thing happened last night…nothing."
Phyllis Diller
"Whenever I am caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried."
Mae West (1892-1980)
"It is better to copulate than never."
Robert Heinlein
"I am too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know. "
Garry Shandling
"If sex is so personal, why do we have to share it with someone?"
Unknown
"The only reason I feel guilty after masturbation is that I do it so badly."
David Steinberg
Man: An animal [whose]…chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Woman: An animal…having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication…The species is most widely distributed of all beasts of prey…The woman is omnivorous and can be taught not to talk."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"He who laughs, lasts."
Mary Pettibone Poole (c.1938)
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