*CELIBATE/*CELIBACY
Oriental reverence for celibacy believe that the celibate person has increased spiritual power, probably becuase his sexual energy is converted into spiritual energy. Also detachment is the very essence of mysticism and celibcy creates an awful loneliness - and it is precisely from this emptiness that the blind stirring of love takes it origin. Perhaps the so-called crisis of celibacy in the Catholic Church is also a crisis of mysticism. (Zen, p94)