“If there is a greatest destroyer of the Self (the Soul), it is sexuality.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Don’t deny to the body what is naturally its right, not even under religious pretext” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“One begins to be free of the disease (of the sex), from the moment he or she opposes sex.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) is where not even an iota of a wrong intent arises within.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Celibacy is a terrible idea, adhered to by people who hate themselves and want everyone else to do the same. You should… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, what gives you the idea that you're worth a half-year of celibacy?" "I may not be; you're the only one who… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of… — terry pratchett Copy Share Image
“as Barbara Tuchman, author of Distant Mirror, put it, “clerical celibacy was a joke.” Despite the previous ban on clerical marriages, nuns,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Wherever there is attraction, there is delusionary attachment (moha). Maintain pure awakened awareness of the Soul (shuddha upyoga) where there is attraction.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Greed and sexuality cannot be friends. When one is truly free of sexuality, he becomes greedy. He will care only for wealth;… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“...it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Soul is indeed such that the mahavrats (five great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Ego does not experience happiness or misery. It does not enjoy sex either. It is just the egoism it does that, ‘I… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Honestly, celibacy isn't hard. It's the gasers that sell you broken promises and try to get you off of God's plan offering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If anything, other than our own ‘Real Self’, remains in our memory, it is all vishaya [subjects of pleasures that take one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The venerable goal of openness and communication to integrate celibacy had been taken away from us and replaced with threats of witch… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
“Sexuality is not the poison; fearlessness in sexuality is the poison. Therefore be afraid of sexuality.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Sex is for after marriage. They have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't… — Adriana Lima Copy Share Image
If we were the last two people alive on earth, we'd make celibacy the new national pasttime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There once was a man who was sore 'Cuz his wife wouldn't open the door. Celibacy is just not for me Let… — Jake Wizner Copy Share Image
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Eventually, if desire withers, monogamy too easily slides downward into celibacy. When this happens, fidelity becomes a weakness rather than a virtue.” — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
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