ON LIFE
• In the absence of impatience, the fullness of the moment is realized.
• I delight in the precious moment in which we stop looking and start seeing.
• Being a courageous YES to life is an experience earned through valuing each No.
• This is my daily workout: I rush up to the edge of what I know about myself and push.
• I've heard this story before, I may know it well, but please go on, I've never heard it from you.
ON TRUE NATURE/SELF INQUIRY
• I yearn to see you beyond my own projections.
• I am the one who chooses whether to act from ego, instinct, conditioning, or love.
• Confidence is knowing I can handle anything; acceptance is knowing that it can handle itself.
• I'm rolling over to show you my tender underbelly, not because you showed me yours...but just because, this is me.
• Who am I beyond a figment of my imagination or an aspect of my personality.
• Holding space is listening for who you are, regardless of the words and tone and gestures…who are you beyond all that.
• People who do things because the unseen voices told them to can be considered certifiably crazy, yet, I don't have a better reason for what I do.
• It's not that you wake up one day and say "Who's writing this script?" and then re-write the whole story, it's something we must practice a little everyday.
• To lose sight of the divine, when you are as devotional as I am, can be blinding, but it's not nearly as bewildering as an atheist who starts to suspect that God existed behind his eyelids all along.
• Trying NOT to be in my ego is sometimes the most ego activating choice I make.
• Is it possible to be real, and look good?
ON SEX
• Before enlightenment chop wood carry water. After tantric enlightenment sport wood, squirt water.
• You can be mysterious at times, and even surprise your lover with the unexpected, but the biggest secret to great sex is having no secrets.
• I cultivate quiet passion by never speaking of my perverted fantasies, this practice does not, however, stop me from occasionally hinting, or playing them out.
• Sex with someone you don't know is good, sex with someone you know is great, and sex with someone that is ultimately unknowable is god.
• My spectacular day was one fuck short of perfect!
ON LOVE
• I am always with you, yet simultaneously missing you.
• My devotion to you is all-consuming, ultimately it will devour your distrust of me.
• Your touch short circuits all my defenses, but can I really trust you with my tender heart?
• Your seductive moves have lost their charm on me, now I am only interested in merging with the one that is moving.
• I'm glad you don't desire me just for my mind, because I suddenly get stupid when you walk into the room.
• What good are words in the company of your beauty? I'd be better off trying to describe silence.
• I dreamt I was connecting with you, and then I woke up and the connection didn't go away, nor did the dream.
ON POLY.
• We do.
• Enjoy extra-marital bliss.
• When I talk with the beloved, it's heart-to-heart-to-heart...
• As a self appointed rep. for the poly community, I am intent on making mistakes other people can learn from.
• Rather than a wife, after 10 years of marriage, I prefer to think of myself as a perpetual lover.
• Despite the rumors, I am not anti-marriage. I cherish mine so much that I want to incorporate another married couple (and their two dogs) into my nuclear household.
• They say it's better to have two kids than one: they learn to share better, take care of each other, they don't get spoiled and the love is exponential. Why doesn't this household wisdom apply to lovers as well?
• As a bisexual woman, the way I see it, if I were monogamous, I'd be missing out on half the fun.
• If we appreciate humans are as unique as snowflakes, why are we still so envious of each other?
• Maintaining multiple lovers is a pleasure too great to be reserved for just royal families, mormons and professional golfers.
• Multiple partners equals multiple personalities, multiple perspectives, multiple orgasms and multiple expansion!
• If you're idea of romance is adoring someone to the exclusion of all others, I prefer you find someone else to adore.
• I wish I could walk down the streets proudly holding hands with all my lovers, but the sidewalks simply aren't wide enough.
• What's so damn subversive about loving more than one person without lying or hurting anyone else?
• I may not be able to maintain meaningful relationships with all 7 billion people on this planet, but by loving all my lover's lovers, I am a bit closer.
• I only partially agree with George Michael: Sex is natural - sex is fun, but I'm not sure it's best when it's....one on one.
• Polyamory is not the same as promiscuity. Yes, some people are both, and I celebrate their personal preference, just as I celebrate prudes who practice polyamory.
• I admit the poly community may be a bit insestuous, but I enjoy making love with my lover's lovers and wonder why fucking the family gets such a bad wrap!?
• One of my lovers turns me upside dow, another one inside out, several send me spinning, but you are my northward pole who gives order to all my adventure.
ON MAGIC
• There is magic in every moment, but especially in the ones where we meet.
• I've never experienced an unanswered prayer, they are just not answered YET, or WILDLY surpassed!
• There is a certain magic that pervades the space between our bodies...and for my next act, we're going to make it disappear.
• Waking life is so unbelievable, random people often pinch me to see if I'm for real.
• Miracles happen so often that I just expect them, or maybe, it is the other way around?
ON ART AND CREATIVITY
• Shooting erotica brings new meaning to the word: Action!
• The most illuminating poetry arises out of self pleasure; 'tis a pity my hands are too engaged to wield a pen..
• Anticipating my connection with you, uplevels the conversation in my head.
• My sexual impulse and creative inspiration are so aroused in your presence, it's a shame to untangle them.
• When it comes to worship, talk is usually worthless, but your words fill me like the sweet scent of a burnt offering.
• Your wordless depths make my passion eloquent.
• Of all the plentiful forms of worship, I usually find talking fruitless, but a few words from you have scattered like seeds in my heart, and proliferated my soul.
• If Shakespeare were alive to day, he might say: "All the world is a Reality Show."
• When doing an on-camera interview, remember: There's no such thing as a stupid question...only stupid answers.
• Did you know there's a little red light on a movie camera that lights up like a clit when it's turned on ;)
ON MOTHERHOOD
• 5 years ago, a little piece of my heart ripped out of my yoni and started to beat on it's own. Happy Birthday, Devin.
• When asked what he wanted to be when he grows up, Devin says: Everything, like my dad.
• Tucking Devin (5) in to bed last night I say: Sweet Dreams, Darlin'.
Devin: I have a whole box of dreams some of them are good, but some of them are nightmares. Don't worry, whichever one I pick, I'm going to be OK.
Mom: Speechless kiss on the forehead.
• Devin: I know what's really inside every church.
Mom: You do? How do you know?
Devin: Because I'm a kid, and all kids know about church.
Mom: Tell me, what's really inside?
Devin: Boring stuff.
Mom. Oh.
• Devin (5) says: Did you know that if you don't have drumsticks and you want to play the drum, you could always use crayons or colored pencils? Did you know that?
• On the way to pre-school, Devin stuck his head out the window today and said: "I'm so glad there is stuff on this planet. It would be so boring if there was nothing here to play with."
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Michael McClure AKA "Eco Elf" is co-founder of Tantra Theater. He is an environmentalist, comedian, musician and shaman. He stars in Showtime's new reality series: Polyamory: Married and Dating. In addition to making us laugh onstage, he is the executive producer, set and lighting designer. www.PolyamoryMichael.com
Cheri Reeder is a natural born muse. She is a Native American Indian/Italian Dragon. She is an author, songwriter and new performer.
