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Do you think chastity makes one more spiritually healthy?

Asked by le_inferno (6194points) August 10th, 2009

An excerpt from “The Razor’s Edge” that inspired me to ask:
“I am in the fortunate position that sexual indulgence with me has been a pleasure rather than a need. I know by personal experience that in nothing are the wise men of India more dead right than in their contention that chastity intensely enhances the power of the spirit.”
“I should have thought that wisdom consisted in striking a balance between the claims of the body and the claims of the spirit.”
“That is just what the Indians maintain that we in the West haven’t done. They think that we with our countless inventions, with our factories and machines and all they produce, have sought happiness in material things, but that happiness rests not in them, but in spiritual things. And they think the way we have chosen leads to destruction.”

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