The Tension Between Sex and Love

The fourth tension is the tension between sex and love. When we speak of them here separately, it is because we are referring to those who separate sex from love. In married life the two are to be united. But when the two are not correctly understood or when they are divorced then we find these differences. Love concentrates on the object, sex on the subject, namely on the self. The ego in sex bleeds that it loves, but what it really loves is the projection of the ego and the self into the other person. God alone is the whole. Do not expect therefore the other partner to give you infinite happiness. There is a heaven, but it is not here on earth