“Very few people know what Love is. Ninety-nine percent of people think that sexuality is Love … It is not. Sexuality is desirous and animalian. It has the potential of growing into Love, but it is not actual Love … If we choose to become conscious and caring during sexual union, then sex can be transformed into Love. When your lovemaking is not merely a desire for the other, when your lovemaking is not only a need, when your lovemaking is a sharing, when your lovemaking is not that of a beggar or an emperor but is rather as a friend or confidant, when your lovemaking is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give – to give for the sheer joy of giving – then and only then will your lovemaking know LOVE.” ~ inspired by Osho

We certainly have more than enough parent-less babies on the planet as it is, so I’m pretty sure that sex is no longer needed as a means to procreate. Indeed, if we look at the ancient Hebrew in the Bible’s book of Genesis, it is not God who tells humankind to “be fruitful and multiply”, but the fallen angels (“the elohim”, or the plural “gods” in Hebrew) who do so.

That having been said, sexual union can be a Power-full way to express LOVE, and that is the ultimate Meaning that rests within it — the radiant end that can only be arrived at via equally radiant means.

Of course, this LOVE is expressed sexually only when both parties involved are consciously choosing to selflessly Care for each other during such a physical union. As long as desire or fear is present in any form in either partner, real LOVE can be neither shown nor known; neither given nor received.

The basic difference between having sex & making Love is that the former looks to get something from the other in the near future, while the latter celebrates a gentle Oneness with the other in the present.

Please consider this earnestly …
Please embody this powerfully.

“The way you choose to make Love
is the way God will be with you.” ~ Rumi

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