You only live once,

So you must make your life worthwhile,

By pursuing, truth, beauty, or goodness.

But the ecstasy of the body,

In the sensuous moment of time,

Demands satisfaction,

Within the rhythm,

Of a holistic human life.

For truth, beauty, and goodness,

Also lie in the depths,

Of our ecstatic bodily existence.

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