Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.
For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the share… - Robert C. Solomon
For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the share…
- Robert C. Solomon
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and m… - Robert C. Solomon
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and m…
Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited. - Robert C. Solomon
Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown. - Robert C. Solomon
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities. - Robert C. Solomon
Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.
All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal. - Robert C. Solomon
All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level. - Robert C. Solomon
Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life. - Robert C. Solomon
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. … - Robert C. Solomon
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. …
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