The practice of celibacy often includes a balance between conscious awareness and subconscious drives.
There is also the practice of sexual moderation. The realm of sex plays a large part of what makes us happy and what can ruin us.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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