May Sarton Quotes

Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.

It's because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all.

You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe. You can open to be lived by love with no limits, so you are alive as love, offering the deepest gifts of your heart spontaneously and without hesitation, in every moment, at work, with your family and friends, as well as in bed with your lover.

Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is entering into a totally different dimension - the dimension of the mysterious and the miraculous. Now it is becoming religious, sacred, it is no longer profane.

Sexuality is a sacrament.

I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I highly recommend tantric sex workshops.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation.

Transform your sex into love, and transform your love into prayer

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?

Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.

The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity's ancient campaign against pagan nature.

I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.