Sexual & Creative Energy

There is one energy in you that builds life. It is the same energy that builds everything else. This is the teaching at the centre of this book, and it is older than any of the traditions that have tried to hold it. The force that drives a man or woman toward another body is not a separate appetite, walled off from the rest of the self, to be indulged in private and forgotten by morning. It is the most concentrated expression of the life-force itself — the same current that becomes ambition, art, courage, hunger to build, the refusal to be small. When you learn to feel that current as one thing rather than many, and to direct it rather than …