For the body to open and receive and inform, consciousness must learn to play it. The body will only open when it is met by consciousness.

Eros calls us into an excellence beyond the finite excellence we can achieve through the rational mind, into what we might call beauty, flow, resonance and an awareness that things are as they are and there is no more than this.

The body experience is one where everything is connected, dynamic and inclusive, with the capacity to open to both a perceived threat and opportunity alike, which proves to be quite an effective strategy. Where the mind may say to separate, stabilize and discriminate, the body says to connect, open and include.

When the window opens, it makes an offer. The more we’ve practiced willingness, the more likely we are to say yes—even when the mind wants to hold on and say no.

We sense whether whatever is entering our consciousness will bring us closer to that sense of freedom or farther from it.

We turn desire into duty because it’s easier to clamp down, to constrict the calling of desire, than it is to open up to the unbearable gift of it all.

Fear is desire’s fiercest and most loving guardian. She demands your nakedness, that you carry no weapons, that you be splayed open to receive.

Some call this the “two-foot drop from the head to the heart.” Some never take the leap. But those who do, know.

There is no comfortable distancing on the path of Eros.

This is sex—not the act, but the current. Not the performance, but the real. It’s trembling, tears, the release of control.