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"Throughout the world, so-called holy men have maintained that to look at a woman
is something totally wrong: they say you cannot come near to God if you indulge
in sex, therefore they push it aside although they are eaten up with it. But by
denying sexuality they put out their eyes and cut out their tongues for they
deny the whole beauty of the earth. They have starved their hearts and minds;
they are dehydrated human beings; they have banished beauty because beauty is
associated with woman."
1980
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"I am not against sex, but see what is involved in it. What sex gives you
momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with
your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in
which there is no worry, no problem, no self."
1980
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"What do we mean by the problem of sex? Is it the act, or is it a thought about the act? Surely
it is not the act. The sexual act is no problem to you, any more than eating is a problem to you,
but if you think about eating or anything else all day long because you have nothing else to
think about, it becomes a problem to you."
The First and Last Freedom, p.228
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