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Mother Spirit: That’s definitely the way to go, to enjoy that God-created uniqueness of every person you meet.

Mother Spirit: That’s definitely the way to go, to enjoy that God-created uniqueness of every person you meet.

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===='''''[[Sexuality]]'''''====

Student: I have another question, Mother Spirit. It’s about, off the subject really, it’s about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmacharya brahmacharya]—it’s a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanga Vedanta] term, I  believe))--[[chastity]] and [[sexuality]]. I wonder if being a physical being, being a sexual being, in any way detracts from being a spiritual being.

Student: I have another question, Mother Spirit. It’s about, off the subject really, it’s about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmacharya brahmacharya]—it’s a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanga Vedanta] term, I  believe))--[[chastity]] and [[sexuality]]. I wonder if being a physical being, being a sexual being, in any way detracts from being a spiritual being.

*Spirit and sex

*Spirit and sex

Mother Spirit: Well, my dear, that’s an easy one to answer by our very definition of spirit. God is spirit. God is the original source and center. And God, as we say, is omniscient. There is nothing happening, especially among personal beings, that God is not himself experiencing.

Mother Spirit: Well, my dear, that’s an easy one to answer by our very definition of spirit. God is spirit. God is the original source and center. And God, as we say, is omniscient. There is nothing happening, especially among personal beings, that God is not himself experiencing.

So here again, we invite folks to be humble enough to realize the enormity of what sexuality is and has been all through history. Accept response-ability, being able to respond with your own sexual nature. Your ability to respond is such a delight because it leads you to my entire lesson tonight of really taking in another. This is a very special way of doing that. This is a very special dance between folks, is it not?

So here again, we invite folks to be humble enough to realize the enormity of what sexuality is and has been all through history. Accept response-ability, being able to respond with your own sexual nature. Your ability to respond is such a delight because it leads you to my entire lesson tonight of really taking in another. This is a very special way of doing that. This is a very special dance between folks, is it not?

   

   

Student: Yes. So it isn’t going to bring your consciousness down by using your sexuality. It doesn’t make us any more pure to not be sexual, just to be a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmacharya brahmacharya]? (a celibate nun?)

Student: Yes. So it isn’t going to bring your consciousness down by using your sexuality. It doesn’t make us any more pure to not be sexual, just to be a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmacharya brahmacharya]? (a celibate nun?)

   

   

Mother Spirit: Again, my dear, you’re pointing up the cultural aspect of it. If a culture teaches, and even more importantly, if an individual accepts sexuality as being almost the epitome of a non-spiritual human life, then that is what that is for that individual. That can determine the individual’s whole life in their attitude toward sexuality. We can only ask such an individual to be aware that perhaps he or she has no actual experience beyond, shall we say, a denial of their own and others’ sexuality.

Mother Spirit: Again, my dear, you’re pointing up the cultural aspect of it. If a culture teaches, and even more importantly, if an individual accepts sexuality as being almost the epitome of a non-spiritual human life, then that is what that is for that individual. That can determine the individual’s whole life in their attitude toward sexuality. We can only ask such an individual to be aware that perhaps he or she has no actual experience beyond, shall we say, a denial of their own and others’ sexuality.

Mother Spirit: And so, my dear, this is where, as you say, the rubber meets the road. This is the real nitty-gritty of human life, not only the fact that you are an individual, a unique being living in the midst of dozens--or for some of you, hundreds of others--but that life itself, all that “other” out there, all those other folks, that whole world surrounding you; where you are at this place and point in history compared to all that’s already happened and all that will happen--this unique point in time: this is what you are.

Mother Spirit: And so, my dear, this is where, as you say, the rubber meets the road. This is the real nitty-gritty of human life, not only the fact that you are an individual, a unique being living in the midst of dozens--or for some of you, hundreds of others--but that life itself, all that “other” out there, all those other folks, that whole world surrounding you; where you are at this place and point in history compared to all that’s already happened and all that will happen--this unique point in time: this is what you are.

   

   

This is your glory of having all of this; if you will, being given all of this. Life is an adventure. We’ve said at one time, it’s like being on the rim of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon Grand Canyon] and stepping off into an [[unknown]] [[future]], not even knowing exactly what your own [[thoughts]] might be ten minutes from now.

This is your glory of having all of this; if you will, being given all of this. Life is an adventure. We’ve said at one time, it’s like being on the rim of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon Grand Canyon] and stepping off into an [[unknown]] [[future]], not even knowing exactly what your own [[thoughts]] might be ten minutes from now.

===Closing===

===Closing===

*Touching

*Touching