Writer Between Worlds

“The person who said: love is a matter of the epidermis was undoubtedly referring to this inferior knowledge of the body, to the fact that possession is possible only under certain physical conditions and for certain human specimens. But the body can reveal more. Beyond voluptuousness, beyond lust, a consummate self-rediscovery is possible in that embrace, as if you were embracing – for the first time – another part of yourself, which ‘wraps you up’, completes you, revealing to you another experience of the world, enriched with new and different dimensions.”

Mircea Eliade – Marriage in Heaven (1938)