Sexual energy is a powerful force that drives us

• We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs. Frank Langella
• It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking. Wilhelm Reich
• Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth. Lynn Margulis

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Sexual energy is a power that moves us towards one another

• Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is right). Alexandra Katehakis

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Sexual energy unblocks and focuses energy

• The sheer pleasure of sex creates a state of intense absorption. Our attention is taken away from the chattering of our mind. Sex overwhelms us to such an extent that our attention is effectively closed to everything beyond the desire and pleasure we feel.  Sex also appears to generate new energy inside our body, or at least to unblock and ease the flow of energy.  Steve Taylor

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Sexual energy comes into play long before any physical act of sex

• Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn’t sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim. Paulo Coelho

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Sexual energy can be transferred from one partner to another

• It’s everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for him to assume that the energy he feels is his own. Frederick Lenz
• Women tend to open themselves up more during sex. Because their subtle physical bodies are so much more sensitive they tend to pick up the total energy of the man they have sex with. Frederick Lenz

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Sexual energy operates at different levels

• Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit. Samael Aun Weor

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Sexual energy can be a potent energy for good

• I think a sexual energy is a positive energy. Emily Haines
• Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex. Napoleon Hill
• When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains. Julian Beck
• Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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Sexual energy can be a creative energy that is harnessed

• People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex – to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic. Kanye West
• Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The creative energy of the female. That is why I worship divine sexual female energy. Russell Brand

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Sexual energy, applied for example through tantra, can be a highly spiritual thing

• The Tantric sects of Hinduism and Buddhism see sex as a symbolic expression of the unity of the universe and believe that sexual partners can directly experience the bliss that is the nature of the absolute reality of the universe. According to Tantra, the whole of the body is filled with divine energy which becomes aroused during sex and which we can learn to control. Steve Taylor
• Spiritualizing sex is actually a movement of energy—feeling and emotion—that rises within you and moves into your sexual physicality as an alive, tender, erotic, or passionate expression. Alexandra Katehakis

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Sexual energy is an expression of kundalini energy

• The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it’s a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it’s kind of searing or it’s tingling, it almost feels sexual. Frederick Lenz
• It’s funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini. Frederick Lenz
• There is a certain drop of a type of kundalini when you have sex. Frederick Lenz

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Sexual energy, if rightly harnessed, can lift us upwards

• To my understanding, sex is your only energy, it is life energy. What you do with it depends on you. It can become sin, and it can become also your highest peak of consciousness. It all depends on you how you use the energy. Rajneesh
• The meditative person can transform his sexuality without any antagonism. without any conflict. He is in deep friendship with all his energies, sexual or others; he is not in any fight. Why fight with your own energies? Love them, rejoice in them, and help them to transcend the lower forms, the animal forms. Let them move from the body towards the turiya, the fourth. Rajneesh
• The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear. Rajneesh
• You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe. You can open to be lived by love with no limits, so you are alive as love, offering the deepest gifts of your heart spontaneously and without hesitation, in every moment, at work, with your family and friends, as well as in bed with your lover. David Deida

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Sexual energy can also be used in negative and harmful ways

• Sexual energy becomes problematic if you use it to enslave someone, to demoralize them, to hurt them, to wrap them up. The way most people use sexual energy is to hook somebody, to wrap them. Frederick Lenz
• Our sexual energy, when not properly mastered, is transformed into anger. Paulo Coelho
• In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy. Frederick Lenz
• Many men have deep rooted problems regarding the status of women, and during sex these problems come out. They consciously or unconsciously project anger and hate towards women they have sex with. This energy enters a woman’s subtle physical body and damages it. Frederick Lenz
• Some people use the sexual energy particularly during intercourse to take personal power from each other. Frederick Lenz
• It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships. Frederick Lenz
• The sexual energies returned, when they’re not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power – the fear of women. Frederick Lenz
• In terms of spiritual development, it’s not a big deal whether you have sex or not, the question is more of who you have sex with and what their energy is doing to you. Frederick Lenz

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Sexual energy, if repressed, can go sour

• If you never lived out your sexuality – it’s a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing. Peter Greenaway
• When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot? George Orwell

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If there is any tendency to judge sexual energy in any way, we are advised to simply observe it intensely and let it be there

• When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No – no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad – distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention – and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned. Rajneesh

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Sex is one way to enjoy the energy of love in the physical plane…

• Sex was always surrounded by taboos, and I don’t see it necessarily as a manifestation of evil. I think that sexuality is first and foremost the way that God chooses for us to be here on earth, to enjoy this energy of love in the physical plane. Paulo Coelho

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…but in certain respects, sex can get in the way of love

• When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind. Rajneesh
• Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving – sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing – because it is the same energy that has to become love. It is being destroyed in sex. To become love, the same energy has to move to the heart centre. Rajneesh
• Do you know what love is? It is the most beautiful, comprehensive, divine, pranic energy given to you by God, which you should have experienced. But what did you do? You turned it into mucous and saliva and you call it kisses and hugs and sex. Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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Sexual energy is our instinctual drive towards oneness…

• WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole being, loses all identity; they are no more themselves – they have fallen into abyss. But this can happen only for a moment: again they regain, again they start clinging. That’s why people become afraid in love. Rajneesh

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…yet it can, at times, leave us disappointed and even have the opposite effect

• When you make sex to a person, woman or man, you think it unites you. For a moment it gives you the illusion of unity, and then a vast division suddenly comes in. That’s why after every sex act, a frustration, a depression sets in. One feels that one is so far away from the beloved. Sex divides, and when love goes deeper and deeper and unites more and more, there is no need for sex. Your inner energies can meet without sex, and you live in such a unity. Rajneesh

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Sex can be a drain on occult energy for mystical pursuits…

• Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment. Frederick Lenz
• If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. Frederick Lenz
• Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards. Frederick Lenz

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…and as a result, some spiritual masters recommend abstinence

• Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy. Patanjali

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A life of love and an abstinence from sex is called brahmacharya

• Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love. Rajneesh
• Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Rajneesh

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Brahmacharya lifts energy from the sex center to the higher centers…

• Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy: it is not being against sex, rather it is changing the whole energy from the sex center to the higher centers. When it reaches to the seventh center of man, the sahasrar, then brahmacharya happens. If it remains in the first center, muladhar, then sex; when it reaches to the seventh center, then samadhi. The same energy moves. It is not being against it; rather, it is an art how to use it. Rajneesh
• What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone, but on your understanding and on how you live your life. Have you not observed that it becomes brahmacharya, the state of celibacy when it is transformed? bramhacharya is not hostile to passion; brahmacharya is the purification, the transcendence, the sublimation of passion. In the same way, the energy that manifests itself in violence becomes peace, serenity and tranquility. It is only a question of transformation. Rajneesh
• The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear. Rajneesh

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…so that sexual energy is used for love and other things

• If you are involved totally, sex disappears because sex is a safety valve. When you have energy unused, then sex becomes a haunting thing around you. When total energy is used, sex disappears. And that is the state of brahmacharya, of virya, of all your potential energy flowering. Rajneesh

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Sexual energy can be wild or tamed

• One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people – given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not. Susan Sontag

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Sexual energy can wax and wane

• It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time – as the original impetus loses its luster. And then, I suppose, it’s on to the next thing. But eros is eternal, like joy. Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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Sexual energy is strengthened by masculine and feminine polarity

• The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion. David Deida

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Sexual energy is strengthened by trust

• If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: “I trust you”. The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren’t even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play. Paulo Coelho

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Sexual energy is strengthened by diet

• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. Barbara Cartland

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Sexual energy is strengthened by being comfortable with yourself

• What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you’re not hovering or censoring yourself, you’re just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person. Katherine Moennig

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Sexual energy can at time be strengthened, some argue, by secrecy

• Secrecy fuels erotic intensity because it makes you feel like you’re doing something that is entirely yours. It gives you the sense of autonomy, the sense of freedom, and the sense of sovereignty. And then you add to that the sexual energy. In many affairs, people will tell you they slept with the person three or four times, but the story went on for months. That’s an important thing because many people who have affairs often have very good sexual relationships at home. It’s not necessarily a compensation story. But affairs offer a different sexuality with a different context. Esther Perel

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Men can be terrified and yet mesmerised by female sexual energy

• Men are terrified of a woman’s depth of love and the energy that moves as a woman’s sexuality and emotions. And, at the same time, men want nothing more in this life than to merge completely with a woman’s devotional love and wild energy. Only as a man outgrows his fear can he handle a woman’s tremendous love-energy without running. And only such a man is worthy of your devotional offering in a committed intimacy. David Deida