From Saying Yes To Life:
Contrary to the romantic fantasies we have about relationships, in actuality they often push us directly into our blind longings, our dark fears, and our unhealed pain.
We're often more attached to the belief that we need a particular person in order to be happy that we are to the actual person.
On some level, we as a society regard sexuality as something dark, forbidden. This shadowy undercurrent of puritanical sentiment still flows deep in our cultural memory. As a consequence, the desire for sex is rarely simple.... Often it is driven by the thirsting desire for excitement and romance, to cover the anxious quiver of our aloneness. And almost always, from our very core, there comes the desperate craving for acceptance, for love. Yet the power of our sexual energy is in itself neither good nor bad. Far more important than the mere denial or fulfillment of desires, the clarity of our awareness determines whether our sexuality is a heaven or hell.
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