Sacrifice Is Nothing Other Than

Eroticism Is Assenting To Life Even In Death.

Eroticism Differs From Animal Sexuality In That Human Sexuality Is Limited By Taboos And The Domain Of Eroticism Is That Of The Transgression Of These Taboos. Desire In Eroticism Is The Desire That Triumphs Over The Taboo. It Presupposes Man In Conflict With Himself.

Entirety Exists Within Me As Exuberance In Empty Longing In The Desire To Burn With Desire.

The Anguish Of The Neurotic Individual Is The Same As That Of The Saint. The Neurotic, The Saint Are Engaged In The Same Battle. Their Blood Flows From Similar Wounds. But The First One Gasps And The Other One Gives.

By Inner Experience I Understand That Which One Usually Calls Mystical Experience: The States Of Ecstasy, Of Rapture, At Least Of Meditated Emotion. But I Am Thinking Less Of Confessional Experience, To Which One Has Had To Adhere Up To Now, That Of An Experience Laid Bare, Free Of Ties, Even Of An Origin, Of Any Confession Whatever. This Is Why I Don't Like The Word Mystical.