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    “We will love each other as long as love remains authentic and true, and the moment we feel that the time has come to pretend, we will not pretend—that is ugly, inhuman.  We will simply accept that the love that used to be there is no longer there, and it is time for us to part.  We will remember all those beautiful days and moments that we spent together.  It will remain always a fresh memory.  And I don’t want to destroy it by pretending; neither do I want you to become a hypocrite.” ~ Osho, Fame, Fortune, and Ambition

      “Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship.  But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as long.  So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide: Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe all in one.  Give me comfort, give me edge.  Give me novelty, give me familiarity.  Give me predictability, give me surprise.  And we think it’s a given, and toys and lingerie are going to save us with that.”

      Esther Perel, via Modern Romance

        “Sexual energy is a wastage if it remains only confined to sex, but it becomes a great blessing if it starts transforming its quality.  Enter into sex not for sex’s sake—use sex as a communion of love.  Use sex as a meeting of two souls, not only of two bodies.  Use sex as a meditative dance of two persons’ energies.  The dance is far richer when man and woman are dancing together, and sex is the ultimate in dance: two energies meeting, merging, dancing, rejoicing.” ~ Osho, Fame, Fortune, and Ambition