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If "a man has a keen sense of taste and smell, a fine ear for music, and eye that delights in symmetry and colour;... it does not follow he is sunk in sensuality or a rank materialist... But the moment he becomes a gourmand, the moment he lives only for the joy of satisfying some or all of his senses, be they sexual, intellectual, or otherwise, he is abusing his gifts and hindering the unfoldment of his soul. Just as asceticism is unnatural and fundamentally false in principle, so license is equally false and even more injurious to human nature, for bad as abstinence may be, over- indulgence in anything is worse in its effects." (Pres for Liv 54)
(66:9)
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