Kamala Devi’s new book will be published in the winter of 2015! The working title is…
Tantra Sutras:
Provocative quotes on Sex, Art, Love, Orgasm Kink, and Other Spiritual Pursuits.
I am currently in the process of editing and finding an illustrator. Following is my seasonal installment of deep and dirty thoughts, I had so many sayings, that I had to break them into parts. Enjoy A-H, if you want to read more click here. I’m also excited to announce that my full list of Eco-Sex Sutras will be published in an Ecosexuality anthology by Serena Anderlini in 2015. Details TBA. Hope you enjoy these fun pieces!
ON AGAPE
- I am at the center of my universe, just as you are the center of yours, by loving each other, our worlds merge into infinity.
- Love takes courage: when the fear of loss looms big, we must open our hearts even bigger.
- If it’s true that love cannot be created or destroyed, it is just constantly changing form, then our current relationships are new configurations of all the love we ever shared.
- Love is both relative and absolute. Fear is the opposite of the small love. The big love has no emotional counterpart. It is the white light that turns into a whole spectrum of experience when passing through the prism of the human heart.
ON ART
- I am actively un-writing my destiny.
- If you are not pissing off the pope, you are not playing hard enough.
- Her elaborate web of perverted fantasies hangs over my head like a dream catcher when I write.
- My art oscillates between periods of narcissistic self indulgence and courageous acts of service to the collective.
- I met Rumi, writing poetry by the riverside. I told him if his pen ever ran dry, he could dip it into my inkwell. I’ve been overflowing ever since.
- Creativity can be cruel. She starts by nibbling on your earlobe, if that doesn’t inspire you, she’ll bite, and if you ignore her, she’ll shoot her creative venom into your veins.
- Writers block is an indication that you are attached to quality. If you give yourself permission to produce quantity, without clinging to concepts of ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ everything flows.
- There are two full grown women running around in my head doing things I’ve always dreamed of doing. I admit, I hear voices. I write, because the alternative would be crazy…and the result is over 5,000 words of my new novel with Roxanne DePalma.
- My art is not just for an audience but for my ancestors. For all the sexual outcasts, perverts and pioneers. I dedicate my work to the men and women who were branded as witches and devil worshipers. And it’s for the sad housewives who don’t know better, and go numb in their girl parts. I do it for the collective.
ON BREATHING
- Love in. Love out. I receive love on the inhalation and release love on the exhalation. I just can’t be held accountable for what happens during those damn retentions.
- Countless times a day, without notice, our inhalation turns into an exhalation. Like two strangers crossing on a city street– without recognition. But every once in a while, someone wakes up to the miracle that another human being is, and just like that, a connection is born! Within every person, in every moment, a similar spark of magic is available, if we simply observe how the fullness of breath naturally flips inside out– becoming empty, again– until the end of our existence.
ON COMMUNITY
- I hold my community close, like a second skin.
- Community service is graduate personal growth work.
- Civility is wanting for the whole as much as for the individuals.
- My most intimate relationship is with a complex network of individuals.
- One cannot be a truly great lover without some of it spilling over into the community.
- I’m not looking for my soul mate –I’ve found my soul tribe– and we are always accepting applications.
- To my dear friends in Victimhood, I wish you the best, but I’m moving to a new neighborhood.
- I have created an abundant community around me to overcompensate for the fear that I am ultimately alone.
- The collective consciousness of a connected community doesn’t just have a mind of its own, but a group heart.
- One way to temper a false sense of community is to co-create an orgy, and show up afterwards for whatever comes up in the process.
- I am terrified of suffering alone, as a result I’ve been compulsive about pulling others into my pain. I see now where I’ve confused wallowing for compassion, and resolve to connect more in pleasure.
ON COMPASSION
- Staying bitter is lazy, compared to the deep and humbling work of forgiveness.
- Compassion comes with knowing that reality is always perceived and projected through our partial perspectives.
- Suffering is a part of life, forgiveness is the holy practice of accepting that truth, without perpetuating it by closing our hearts.
- I understand and forgive the defensive impulse to vilify someone you love, when the relationship can not continue, but your heart is still attached.
ON ECOSEXUALITY
- Everything in nature is made wet by her laughter.
- When the wilderness wants to be watched, it’s not from behind a window.
- Sunbathing is so sensual, but my sunburn is not sexy, like an Eco-sex shame-hang over.
- How can I be satisfied by the beauty of the ocean’s surface when she keeps calling me into her depths?
- As I run my hands down to the base of her trunk, I feel for the soft ticklish places that peek out between bits of bark, until I get to that vulnerable spot where she splits into roots and merges into earth.
ON FALLING IN LOVE
- If you open my heart, naturally, my legs will want to follow.
- Deep in my heart I built an altar and lit a candle for you.
- Burning wings can’t keep me from flirting with the flames of love.
- Grab that which is not love fiercely and rape it with your love.
- I fell asleep in a lavender scented bath, listening to the rain, in my beloved Michael McClure’s arms last night.
- I’m bummed that I can not make you love me the way I want you to, but I refuse to let that close my heart.
- If you know how to listen, to really listen, you may realize there are angels all around you, singing their hearts out.
- There is a new girl in the front row. She doesn’t know the rules, the answers, or really anyone– yet–she’s got everyone’s attention. We all want a blank slate, a fresh start, a new perspective. She reminds us: we are all strangers to ourselves.
ON HEALING
- Where there is separation, it is by my own creation.
- I either remedy or poison everyone I treat, yet it appears I am immune to my own medicine.
- We can not become whole in ourselves unless we strive to see the wholeness in others.
- Forgive me–when my current communication triggers your past pains and I am confused for the cause. Let me make it up to you by helping heal those old wounds once and for all.
ON HEARTACHE
- I will always love everyone I ever loved.
- By the time I get to the mid-life point, I will have already had my crisis.
- If you think re-setting a broken bone is a bitch, try a fractured love bond.
- My heart bursts into shrapnels, in service to Cupid, who needs frequent target practice.
- I think of you with the same compulsion that leads a criminal back to the scene of the crime.
- Heartache is inevitable when our immense capacity to love God is singularly focused on another human being.
- When your intention is to do no harm, and communicating does more harm than good, it’s time to stop communicating.
- Leaving would be easier if I could blame you for harsh words, broken boundaries and insufferable dysfunction. But it takes a steeper kind of courage to not settle for comfortable.
ON HUMOR
- Safer Sex rule #1: Don’t set my pubic hair on fire!
- If infinite intelligence came down to Earth and took the form of a woman, I’d challenge her to a naked oil wrestling match.
- Most humans are born with 5 senses and can chose to cultivate more throughout their life. It doesn’t take psychic ability to see that God has a sense of humor.
All Copyrights belong to Kamala Devi, 2015. If you would like to read Part 2 with Kamala Devi’s thoughts on: Jealousy, Kink, Life, Marriage, Motherhood, Non-Attachment, Non-Duality, On being Human, Parenting, Polyamory, Sacred Sex, Vulnerability and Waking up…Click here.
