TO DANCE WITH EROS
is to live and love erotically in all the arenas of our lives,
beyond the merely sexual.
That is what it means to be holy.
Just as holiness should not be limited to our houses of worship,
Eros should not be limited to our bedrooms.
Eros is to be fully present to what is. It is to open your eyes
and see for the first time
the full beauty and gorgeousness of a friend,
to smell the richness of an aroma,
to feel the fullness of throbbing desire,
and to taste the erotic experience that connects you with every being.
It is to feel the palpable love that dissolves
the walls of ego, anger, and anxiety.
To be a lover, implies Plato, is to passionately enter the inside of reality.
Eros is love but not in the casual, pallid,
and sometimes anemic way we often talk of love.
On the 'inside' of things all is aflame.
To live erotically is to be fully present
to each other's richness, complexity, and ultimate grandeur.
It is to fully wait for the other to appear.
