Original sentence: In essence, courtly love was a contradictory experience between erotic desire and spiritual attainment, "a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and self-disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent"
Edited sentence: In essence, courtly love was a (perhaps seemingly contradictory) experience between erotic desire and spiritual attainment, "a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and self-disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent".In particular, the concept is closely associated with the modern day interpretation of Tantric Sex.Note, however, that this concept should not be considered "old fashioned" or deprecated, since similar concepts are widely followed by many people today who hold to a liberal form spiritual philosophy