It occurs to me that the mystics while wise have the approach to achieving enlightenment wrong. We are all flesh and spirit. But the spirit is nurtured along with the flesh. Bodily pleasures like good food and sex all enhance our spiritual lives if controlled and approached with care and intent. After all a medicine man will tell you that a man is not a machine and that when the body is injured or ill that the spirit also is injured or ill. Healing only the body will allow the sick or injured spirit to cause the person to become ill once more till the spirit heals. This is why the medicine man will drum or work magic for the ill patient, to heal the whole being not just the sick body.
Expressing love physically does not necessarily make love more intense. Nor is it needed to love freely. The spiritual aspect of love is a giving without any expectation of return. There is no control of the loved one just a deep affection, pure and given. It is often returned in kind for all things require balance. I think denying our body’s needs and pleasures weaken the spirit we have within us.
This doesn’t mean we should not pay direct attention to spiritual growth, just that good food, having sex with a loved one doesn’t have a negative impact on our spiritual being. If it does anything it makes us more spiritually strong and aware should we allow it to do so.
Think of the Creator when you eat your next meal, give thanks and enjoy it fully. Then examine how you felt and feel about your connection with the Creator having been nourished by the food given you.
Keeping this in mind learn about what you are both physically and spiritually and grow in both together, balanced and at peace.
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