A Little Book for Lovers
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"Through love we permit life to flow abundantly into us and out of us and into the other person and the world. Love halves experiences of sorrow and pain,inevitable companions of existence. And it magnifies our experience of joy. Through joy, the vicissitudes of human existence become ultimately meaningful."—Georg Feuerstein
In A Little Book for Lovers, yogic philosopher and poet Georg Feuerstein presents an elegant book on finding the rich pulse of life between your lover and the world—in which nothing be excluded from your embrace. With poetry and perceptivity, the mysteries behind finding harmony with your Beloved are revealed as you return to the freshness and simplicity of love in all places, at all times.
Whether quietly reading this book for personal reflection, reading it to your lover on your anniversary, or sharing it with a new couple as a wedding gift, this lyrical and heartfelt book will open you to deeper intimacy with those around you—and place you in communion with the wildly beating heart of the cosmos.
Georg Feuerstein
Georg Feuerstein was an internationally recognized yoga scholar who began studying yoga at the age of fourteen. He is the author of The Essence of Yoga, Lucid Waking, The Philosophy of Classical Yoga, Sacred Sexuality, and The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali.
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Preface
Love escapes definition. It is as ineffable as light or life. Sexual love, too, bursts the boundaries of language. Whenever anyone says sex is such and such, do not be fooled. Any explanation is necessarily partial. And even numerous partial explanations do not make a whole. Certainly, no answer makes or breaks a mystery. And our lives in all their myriad aspects are embedded in and held by a great Mystery.
That Mystery pulsates in the distant galaxies as much as it throbs in the human body and sparkles in the delight of sexual play.
Thus this little book will not tell you precisely what sexual love is. It will offer you no more than helpful pointers. It will evoke potent images, suggest possibilities, and hint at ways of sensing the all-pervading Mystery.
Our sexuality, like our breathing and thinking and doing, wells up in the inexhaustible Mystery of existence. And as we begin to feel that Mystery, our spiritual heart burgeons and our body starts to sing. The song that wells forth in our sexuality is as beautiful as it is ancient. It is the song of Life itself.
We are all familiar with the song of Life. We are all eager to hear it, to receive it in our body, and to thrill at its inherent joy. Yet sometimes we forget its soothing, enlivening existence and our longing for its harmonies. Then we become lost in the dark labyrinth of unhappiness. Once we are thus lost, we needlessly toil to recover the joyous song that ever reverberates in the chambers of our own heart.
May you and I always be mindful of this joyous song.
Georg Feuerstein
part one
LOVE & OTHER VIRTUES
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Mystery’s Hidden Song
Do not assume that sex is two bodies in friction, producing merely pleasurable sensations. This error is perpetuated by those who have lost touch with the Mystery of life. Stimulation of