Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered read more

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in
the sixth place he imparted them read more

They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in
the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the
seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has read more

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that read more

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect read more

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.