She is a religious being, one of the spiritual protectors to whom the Buddhist faithful can turn in distress, and from a religious tradition that has no difficulty at all in happily combining divinity and sensuality.
I quote: " And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster."
He had a very political, spiritual message, and even though it was entertaining and you enjoyed it and you could dance to it, you know, there was this very heavy value.
Some legends say they were hatched from eggs, and while there are a number of stories about the divinity or mortality of her children, Leda's encounter with the swan always stays the same.
I mean, sex for me has always had to have an emotional, romantic or even spiritual dimension. I can see now you can take all of that away and it's still...Marvelous recreation.
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.