You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.
There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.
We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy
It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?
If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.
One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any other kind of being, and a desire, nevertheless, to cultivate an intimacy with animals, trees, mountains and so on.
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.
The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.
The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.
The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.