I am afraid for anyone to see my faults, my baldness, my privates, the body flaws I hide with clothes. But bride and bridegroom see everything about one another. They can be many ways with each other, tender and mocking, playfully rough, any way at all, because they have no fear with each other.
Likewise, the mystery of God knows everything about me. Here, out in the open in front of that, I say, Do whatever you want with this body. Every part of me stands naked in front of you, like a new bride ready for whatever will happen — love, fear, service, difficulties, humiliation, delight.
— Bahauddin , The Drowned Book by Coleman Barks, John Moyne