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If through the mystical Glimpse, God finds Himself temporarily in man's mind, through the creative act of love He finds Himself momentarily in man's body. Although this is but a poor echo of the other and higher discovery, muted and distorted and raucous by comparison, still it is in deepest meaning the union of self with Overself. In this lies its perpetual lure. But because it is a substitution, it is beset with miseries, frustrations, perils, and repulsions. And however often it is satisfied, neither the man nor the woman ever feels really fulfilled. This is because the inner need is ignored, the higher purpose not even thought of.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 124