“People think that intimacy is about sex. Intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you can stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy” Adi Shakti
“People think that intimacy is about sex. Intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you can stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy” Adi Shakti
To enjoy intimacy is to expose your heart to deep sharing as well as to the unloving moments of others.
David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
“The intimacy that comes with time and attention allows us to be vulnerable with others. This intimacy, across a group, can become a durable network—like mycelia. We are strongest when we feel safe being soft.” To me, that network feels like security.
Cultivating Non-Romantic Intimacy
People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.
Taylor Jenkins Reid • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Intimacy can arise in any moment; it is an act of surrender, a gift that excludes nothing.
Jack Kornfield • A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life
There are three kinds of intimacy. The first is physical and sexual, the second is emotional, and the third is spiritual. Sexual intimacy cannot be separated from emotional intimacy; they go together. And, if spiritual intimacy is there, the physical, sexual intimacy will be meaningful, healthy, and healing. Otherwise, it will only be destructive.
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