"I began to recognize that my most important and most deeply felt
spiritual moments – the moments when I most intensely felt that
inexpressible awe and wonder at the mystery of life – had been
possible not because of my social conditioning to associate the sacred with some all-powerful ever-judging entity, but despite it. I also began to see that spiritual development is not something different and apart from such earthly pleasures as sexual ecstasy and loving touch – be it of a child or a lover. On the contrary, I gradually began to understand that these experiences were at the core of my own spiritual development.
And I also began to understand, not just on a theoretical but on an
Experiential level, the urgency of my need to untangle what I had been Taught about both pleasure and the sacred."
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