“The ultimate aim of religion is not right belief, but right action.”
Hey lovers, seekers, and sacred sluts—
I’ve been sitting with a passage from The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm that honestly cracked something open in me. He draws a powerful distinction between Aristotelian logic (either/or, rational, binary) and paradoxical logic, the kind we see in Eastern traditions, mystical paths, and esoteric wisdom.
Fromm writes:
“Thought can only lead us to the knowledge that it cannot give us the ultimate answer. The world of thought remains caught in the paradox. The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.”
Like… what?
He’s saying that truth, love, God, reality; can’t be fully understood through thinking alone. Not through right ideas. Not through right belief. But through right action. Through lived experience. Through devotion. Through embodiment.
This hits so hard in the context of sacred kink, tantra. So many of us are seeking not just to think differently, but to live differently. To touch something real through experience. To become the love, the power, the truth we seek.
Fromm quotes Taoism and says the ultimate reality, the Divine, the One: is nameless, formless, and beyond . We can’t think our way there. We must become it.
“Thought—with all its fine distinctions—is only a more subtle horizon of ignorance, in fact the most subtle of all the deluding devices of maya.”
whats maya you say its: the power with which a god makes you believe in the illusion (what the fuck does that mean!!!)
So what are we left with?
Not belief.
Not doctrine.
But love amd lived truth like can we talk about it ?!?!?!?
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