Joy is the gist of the Christian Good News. Yet, only of we open wide our senses will we be able to drink from the source of this joy. Only then will the Good News prove truly good and ever new. . . . A life rooted in sensuousness thrives. A life entangled in sensuality chokes and withers; it resembles a tangle of roots. Healthy sensuousness rises from root to vine to leaf and fragrant blossom.
— David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart