Lovemaking: Pathway to Truth, Harmony and Wholeness

We know . . . the self-scripts of conventional society. We are thus fragmented within ourselves and [often] in conflict. . . . In contrast to this, when people allow their false separation to dissolve, as is sometimes possible in music or lovemaking or sincere worship, a truer individuality emerges and a harmony between these individualities is possible. When one whole human being meets another whole human being, there is no antagonism. Even if there is difference, there is respect, because the wholeness of one is not in conflict with the wholeness of the other.

According to the testimony of the most mature human beings, we have the potential for knowing all of Being, all of Reality. We can know, embrace, and participate in this transpersonal reality. Furthermore, this whole reality is the electromagnetic field of love.

– Kabir Helminski
Excerpted from The Knowing Heart:
A Sufi Path of Transformation
Shambhala Publications, 2000
p. 9

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

• Getting It Right
• Making Love, Giving Life
• The Many Manifestations of God's Loving Embrace
• The Longing for Love: God's Primal Beatitude
• Never Say It is Not God
• The Holy Pleasure of Intimacy
• Celebrating Our Sanctifying Truth
• "In Finding Myself, I Found God and My Voice"
• Charis
• Quote of the Day – November 16, 2011
• Your Scent I Know

For more of Kabir Helminski at The Wild Reed, see:
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Kabir Helminski
• Thoughts on the Feast of the Ascension

Related Off-site Link:
Mindful Lovemaking – The Leveret (September 14, 2013).

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