sophie

I’ve been thinking about how the spectrum for what intimacy is looks different for every person. I call it the intimacy threshold . For one person, communicating very little information could already feel very intimate (low threshold) while for another person their threshold is much higher — they can share a lot about their life and still not... See more

nothing moves me as reliably as the Pompeii graffiti. we are all brothers https://t.co/QGOmu3rfMx

It is hard enough for a human being to attain such purity of being, harder still to share it with another. In a passage that to me is the purest, most exalted measure of love — love of another, love of life — she writes:

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as

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Anything you polish with attention will become a mirror.