More from David Deida, “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex.”

“Modern-day spiritual culture tends to be a lukewarm miasma of stiffened women and spineless men–very efficient and quite prudent. Once you have balanced your inner masculine and feminine, after you have achieved self-sufficient wholeness, you may naturally desire to outgrow the boundaries of a merely safe and comfortable life.

“Deep down, would you rather settle for safety and comfort, or open so wide you live as love’s tremendum, sometimes shouting, sometimes fighting, always unprotected, your heat exposed as a free gift, your body quaking with the force of love unbound?”