Sara

Wait a minute, baby..
Stay with me a while.
You said you'd give me Life,
But you never told me 'bout The Fire.

Stevie Nicks

Keys

Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms
or books written in a very foreign language.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.

Rainer Marie Rilke

Naked Truth

Truth and Falsehood were bathing;
 Falsehood came out of the water first and dressed himself in Truth's clothes.
 Truth, unwilling to put on the garments of Falsehood, went naked.

Anonymous fable

Likewise

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

Envoy

Man is wrong to be ashamed of mentioning and displaying (the penis), always covering and hiding it. He should, on the contrary, decorate and display it with the proper gravity as if it were an envoy.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wardrobes

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Blow

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

New Guinea

Normal

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen Goodman

Idea

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

San Francisco's Castro District

Something else

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you into something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Answer

At the center of your being you have the answer.
You know who you are and you know what you want.

Lao Tzu

The Teacher

The greatest challenge the teacher faces is not teaching what they know, the greatest challenge is teaching how to learn.

Chencho Dorge

I Am

I am  what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's.

Leonard Nimoy as Star Trek's "Mr. Spock"

Secrets

Anything will give up it's secrets if you love it enough.

George Washington Carver

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Walls

Most of us live behind a wall or smoke-screen which in some degree hides our true thoughts, feelings, beliefs, desires, likes, and dislikes. But the question of self-disclosure goes deeper than mere willingness or reluctance. People often cannot disclose themselves, even if they would, because they do not know their real selves--what they really want, feel or believe.

Scientific American Magazine
May 1958

Focus

If it's in focus, it's pornography. If it's out of focus, it's art.

Linda Hunt
as Billy Kwan, in the film "The Year of Living Dangerously"

Temple

Here in this body are the sacred rivers; here are the sun and the moon, as well as all the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.

Saraha Doha

Knowledge

Our erotic knowledge empowers us, (it) becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives.

Audre Lorde

Precipice

Go jump off a cliff.

Don't go near the cliff and contemplate jumping off.

Don't read a book about jumping off.

Don't study the art and science of jumping off.

Don't join a support group for jumping off.

Don't write poems about jumping off.

Don't kiss the ass of someone else who jumped off.

Just jump.


Jed McKenna

Elevation

Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane.

Dr. Marylyn Horn
"The Second Skin: An Interdisciplinary Study of Clothing"

Devotion

I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life. I had and have no guilt whatsoever when it comes to pleasuring myself.

Gloria Stuart (1910-2010)
Actress who portrayed Old Rose in James Cameron's "Titanic"

Three stages

All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed, secondly it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Right Stuff

Is sex dirty? Not if it's done right.

Woody Allen

Endless

Once you have experienced the bliss of non-ejaculatory orgasm, it will not seem strange or natural to you anymore. Even the thought of ejaculation as the necessary "end" of orgasm will seem odd to you: why end orgasm at all?

Dirk Al
Universal Healing Tao Instructor, Thailand

Contact

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked:
I am mad for it to be in contact  with me.

Walt Whitman

Truth

I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.

Isaac Newton

Permission

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Madonna

The Price

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecstasy

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction, don't let any prude tell you otherwise.

St. Teresa of Avila

The Book

Properly, we should all read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound