Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.