May 13th, 2015

"Love is a sharing, not a giving. A lover shares himself fully with the loved person. This will include both the sharing of joy and of sorrow. Since a pleasure shared is a pleasure doubled, the sharing of joy heightens that feeling, which can become ecstasy in the sexual embrace. The sharing of sorrow halves its pain. The joy one shares stems from the surrender to the body, not form the surrender to the other." -Alexander Lowen, M.D., Joy