“The more you control your physical actions to minimize violence, possessiveness, and sexual obsession, the more alive you feel, the more free you feel, the more peaceful your inner feeling. With violent interactions with others lessened, the more you can open up your sense of interconnection with others, from which your life energy draws immense sustenance. With possessive bonds with other persons and things lessened, the more free you are to appreciate persons and things perceived as owning themselves. With your erotic feelings of love and connection made less dependent on external persons and objects, they are free to well up within you in sublimated–that is more sublime forms of creativity, or even simple well-being.

…”Full behavioral entry into the infinite lifestyle means dropping everything that reinforces habits of the terminal lifestyle, to free yourself for enjoyment of your expanded evolutionary path. The main lesson here is that lessening your entanglement in superficial concerns and interactions is caring for yourself, being loving toward yourself, and establishes the basis of justice and love toward others.”

–from Chapter Five of ‘Infinite Life: Seven Virtues for Living Well,’ by Robert Thurman.