Father Ed Quotes

“In this instance we see that the bodily union involved in the kiss or the embrace is the result of soul union. Modern or temporary [sic] propaganda may suggest the dangerous reverse of these two. The doctrine that physical intimacy will lead to mental intimacy is dangerous, not only morally but psychologically, because bodily intimacy can create barriers to mental intimacy…. The extrinsic, the exterior joint activities, such as finances, recreation, children, house, occupations, depend in very large measure on the successful joint activity of the interior and intrinsic joining of the bodies and souls of you two.51”
― Dawn Eden Goldstein, Father Ed: The Story of Bill W.'s Spiritual Sponsor

“When we come to this primary union of you and the person next to you, we find that marriage not only involves a union of bodies but a union of souls. What is the relation between them? Is bodily union a vestibule to soul union or vice versa? A mother kissing and hugging her son back from a European concentration camp gives a real clue to the relationship. Anybody describing this kissing and hugging between mother and son as a bodily action would miss its larger and fuller import in the soul union there. However, if there were not these embraces and kisses between the long-separated mother and son, manifesting deep soul unity, they would be very abnormal people.”
― Dawn Eden Goldstein, Father Ed: The Story of Bill W.'s Spiritual Sponsor