Gym culture

I can only know you to the extent that I know myself. Intimacy is rooted in self-knowledge. If I haven’t plumbed my depths, I’ll stay stuck at the level of form and flesh.

Men

You can consume pornography or you can participate in an intimate relationship. Go with your preference. Pick one or pick the other. But choose, fool: You can’t cross the lake in two boats.

When I find myself crying

It sometimes happens that men who are awakening will tell me, “I don’t know who I am any more.” It is like the moment in a funeral service when I find myself crying.

Tears in her eyes

Do you draw joy from her, my son? Do you lower the bucket into her depths and draw it up brimming, so that her eyes well?

Or do you make jokes?