#intimacy

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

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Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these? ↗

— E.M. Forster

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Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter. ↗

— Linda Boone

#intimacy #real-love #soaking #life

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy ↗

— Richard Bach

#loneliness #love #love

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way. ↗

— Aberjhani

#intimacy #love #spirituality #valentine-s-day #love

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. ↗

— Armand Assante

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It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

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Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? ↗

— Phil Donahue

#intimacy #men #millions #millions of men #only

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#brother #brother and sister #colleagues #friends #go

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. ↗

— George Eliot

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