[Mara]

Do you think there is any spiritual value in, as Rumi says, "diving into the boiling sea of passion", spending some time eating like the rest of the world eats, red meat and sugar, cigarettes and coffee, enjoying the diverse and passionate traditions of human history?

Are emotional extremes and purely pleasurable activities valid teachers, too?

To me, there is nothing more spiritual than contemplating, and actively experiencing, the diversity and history of humankind, in the form of all of the pleasures and traditions that have survived from ages past.

I love to be in the middle of everyone and everything, taking it all in, all the stories, all the histories.