Quotes About Intimacy

Women in the scriptures were not systematically ignored any more than the majority of men were; they simply wielded their influence in a more intimate, less visible sphere.

For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.

So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.

My paradise:] This morning, with her, having coffee.

Mindfulness as a practice provides endless opportunities to cultivate greater intimacy with your own mind and to tap into and develop your deep interior resources for learning, growing, healing, and potentially for transforming your understanding of who you are and how you might live more wisely and with greater well-being, meaning, and happiness in this world.

While meditation is not all about sitting still on the floor or in a chair, taking your seat both literally and metaphorically is an important element of mindfulness. We could say that in essence, it is a direct and very convenient way to cultivate greater intimacy with your own life unfolding and with your innate capacity to be aware—and to realize how valuable, overlooked, and underappreciated an asset that awareness actually is.

It does provide a greater basket for tenderly holding and intimately knowing our suffering in any and all circumstances, and that, it turns out, is transformative, and can make all the difference between endless imprisonment in pain and suffering and freedom from suffering

ultimately, mindfulness is intimacy—with ourselves and the world—underneath any apparent separation between the two. The

...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

Jesus has to become real to us. We need to court him and get to know him better. Go on some dates with the Lord.

Staying aloof from what's keeping you away from Him is not works.

Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

Do we? Our problem is whatever wedges between us and God.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.