“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
The whole point of an intimacy is to serve each other in growth and love, hopefully in better ways than we can serve ourselves. Otherwise, why engage in intimacy if your growth and love are served more by living alone? Intimacy is about growing more than you could by yourself, through the art of mutual gifting.
David Deida • The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (20th Anniversary Edition)
When spiritual intimacy is there, then physical and emotional intimacy can be healthy, healing, and pleasurable.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Before we came to program, we thought intimacy was that secret word that pertained to sex and making love. We thought it was about taking care of the other person, doing for the other person, and losing ourselves in the other person – because we loved them so much!
ACA WSO INC. • Strengthening My Recovery: Meditations for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
Self-intimacy occurs when people are honest, congruent, authentic, and in harmony with what they are feeling emotionally. This type of intimacy is the critical first step in achieving an emotionally intimate relationship.
Daniel Beaver • Love Yourself: The First Step to a Successful Relationship
True intimacy isn’t a psychodrama. It isn’t the “highest highs and lowest lows.” It
Cheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Frientimacy is trusting them completely, resting in the fact that, no matter what you’re sharing, you know exactly what they think of you—they admire you and love you.