“I have tried to describe a feeling that has often troubled me: I revenge myself on it by giving it publicity”
-Friedrich Nietzsche-
THE SOLIDARITY OF MIND-BODY-WORLD

In my life, desire has been a ceaseless problem.
I have always possessed an unquenchable, ravenous, hunger for knowledge, relation & sex.
For the first time (in nearly 45 years) I can see it as a wholism.
I could read & reflect in the literature and learning of the world 18-20 hours a day without tiring.
I could engage & evince sexual fulfillment and bodily orgasm repeatedly without complaint.
I could interact & dialogue with another willing human around issues of being 18-20 hours a day without exhaustion.
These seem equalities; totalities; wholisms.
The refusal of dualities and scissions.
Inasmuch as my mindbody organism never tires and perpetually desires experiences of stimulation, information, novelty and introduction : research – literature – science – philosophy – style of expression – CONTENT-RICH, CURIOUS, CREATIVE, IDIOSYNCRATIC, NOURISHING, INFORMATIVE OR CHALLENGING...
so does my body: traditional/conventional intimate relationships seem characterized by graphable, chartable periods of intimate craving passion of new love (novelty) / regulation of growing familiarity (intimacy) / rhythmic relational ritual regarding sexual (bodily) ecstatic experience…yet NEVER has that satisfied me. I have always longed for CONTENT-RICH, CURIOUS, CREATIVE, IDIOSYNCRATIC, NOURISHING, INFORMATIVE &/or CHALLENGING bodily pleasure AS MUCH AS I have for my learning mind…with my bodily experience.
As with sex, so with reading (& vice-versa): the IMPORT is the quality, stimulation & unique learning & fulfillment that each author / partner / interaction / experience brings…NOT a quest for repetition or sameness…
I can read Kafka, Dostoevsky, Musil, Proust, Scripture, Aquinas, Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Foucault, Gendlin, Rilke – indeed THOUSANDS of thinkers/artists OVER AND OVER again NEVER tiring or failing to notice / learn / experience some new insight / perception / feeling / LEARNING / ecstasy …
LIKEWISE – physical human partners – I WOULD NEVER tire, grow used to, familiarize, exhaust, cease or lessen to crave, desire, starve for – unique, intriguing, wonderful physical bodies for stimulation, perception, experience, learning, ecstasy …
Seems a Wholism to me. With what is GOOD – nourishing, stimulating, fulfilling – I NEVER CEASE TO CRAVE IT, & NEVER AM FULFILLED – or “accustomed,” “familiarized,” “apathetic,” “exhausted” of detail, inquiry, pursuit, exploration…
Long and long I have felt BAD about this:
feeling that I am weird, a sexually addicted person, uncannily erotic, unnaturally intellectual/abstract etc…
No more. I realize my MIND and my BODY are the same thing: ONE THING : a PERSON…and that exactly as much as I ache/lust/pine/hanker for intellectual stimulation and inexhaustibility in great works of human creativity and expression/reflection…SO I ache/lust/pine/hanker for stimulation and inexhaustible pleasure of bodily interaction…
FOR ONCE…PERHAPS I AM NOT THE “WEIRD” ONE
The one desiring equally and inexhaustibly ecstasy of mind and body, untiringly, unceasingly, unsatisfiably…
The perpetual “quest” for the “endless joy of erotic experience”
MIND & BODY – Aristotle, Augustine, Heidegger, Agamben…
Sappho, Rumi, Rilke, Pessoa…
MIND & BODY EVER CRAVING
PERPETUAL DESIRE
PERPETUAL JOY
impossible to fulfill
impossible to fail
ECSTASY
the perpetuation of joy and desire
WHOLLY
Well-matched, then. Identical, then. SELFSAME, then: mind & body
desire & fulfillment
joy and longing
selfsame in me
and I am not ashamed.

LIFE: REALMS OF PERPETUAL DESIRE AND FULFILLMENT VIA THE JOY OF DESIRE AND PERPETUAL FULFILLMENT NEVER SATISFIED ALWAYS CRAVING ALWAYS NOURISHED CRAVING MORE
PERPETUAL
DESIRE/FULFILLMENT
IDENTICAL
RECURSIVE
NO DESIRE WITHOUT FULFILLMENT
NO FULFILLMENT WITHOUT DESIRING

WHAT I AM.
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