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“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. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.
from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.
from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Remember that true intimacy is only achieved when you can allow the other person to be exactly as they are. The more your mind is preoccupied with how things should be, the more tension you will feel, and the more distance you create between you.
from Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person - learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book (Teach Yourself) by Imi Lo
evanovich added
intimacy is expressed as strong inter-member empathy and the elusive condition of trust.
from A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 commu… by Steph Alinsug
Keely Adler added
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
from Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Bronwyn and added
intimacy takes spaciousness to cultivate.
from A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 commu… by Steph Alinsug
Keely Adler added
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light.
from Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Bronwyn and added