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W.T.: Your relationship is going to evolve. Love has to become more inclusive; and the problem is that people cling to an exclusive love and call that commitment. They don't realize that love is a school to prepare them to become more inclusive in their love.
L.M.: Making it more universal.
W.T.: Jesus has said: of what value is it that you love only those who love you, and who you are attracted to?
L.M.: That's relatively easy to do, isn't it?
W.T.: Sannyasa can become a way, one way for them to increase their awareness of the divine; and to seek it—to evolve their capacity for love and compassion.
L.M.: Does that mean a couple would gradually let go of their need for sexual expression?
W.T.: Well, it depends. I think they might.
L.M.: Is it an individual matter, and is there to be respect and consideration for the particular couple?
W.T.: It is an individual thing. Certainly sexuality is going to become less and less important. They may choose to express themselves sexually at certain times; but they won't feel the need to do so all the time. They will have such a deep love that it is almost besides the point.
L.M.: Sexual love is not eradicated—it is redirected.
W.T.: No, no, it is not an eradication, it is not a suppression, it is not a denial of it. It is an evolution of it.
L.M.: That is unlike the negative attitudes abut sex some of us grew up with in the church.
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