The Body is a Temple

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     Skin touches Skin. Fingers wrap around other fingers. The sense of touch evident in the spiritual experience of sex. The body is an altar, touched and loved and cherished. Even modified as desired by the soul. Tattoos, piercings, hair color are all modifications of how one's body altar wants to look. Just as churches have paintings, us as humans can grant our bodies the same beautiful art. The way our bodies interact with others, even from the mundane of bumping into another to the intimate sensual sexual desires are all components of cherishing the body. Feeling all the different textures on the skin throughout the day is almost an obscure form of prayer, making the body some form of useful. Needles poking into the skin when getting a tattoo, the warm water of an evening shower, and all of the  other things that may happen to the body allow for us to feel, not just physically, but it touches our souls and makes us feel different things. It allows us to feel pain, pleasure, warmth, cold, wet, dry, and everything in between. Interacting with the body as both the self and as an outsider is a spiritual experience that many should take more time to feel and acknowledge all the body does for us.

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