Quotes About Intimacy

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic.  Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty  We all long for that, but we're afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think they'll leave us if they see who we really are.

The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.

special relationship is a relationship based on fear.

Some men know how to love a woman, and some men don't. Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining, and intimacy.

Erotica celebrates women and sexuality. Pornography violates women and demeans sex.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

Love isn't material. It's energy. It's the feeling in a room, a situation, a person...It has nothing to do with the physical world, but it can be expressed nonetheless. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

The powerful man takes as his right the love he desires, if but for a night.

His soul,' she would say, 'picked mine up and we flew.' And to those who gave her a disbelieving look, she would insist. 'Have you never touched someone and felt them? Felt what was inside of their body?' Only a few would know what she was talking about.

And there would be nowhere else for them to go with their conversation after that except to the bedroom

He had been, he thought, her friend, when in fact he had always been her entire world. Inside

The story is told of Mother Theresa that when an interviewer asked her. What do you say when you pray? she answered, I listen. The reporters paused a moment, then asked, Then what does God say? and she replied, He listens. It is hard to imagine a more succinct way to get at the intimacy of contemplative prayer.

Charlotte Bunch writes that if one ethnic national group were attacking another, killing and maiming them at the same rate as men attack and kill women (and she is speaking only of attacks by intimates), the situation would be held to constitute a state of emergency or even war. But domestic violence is only one campaign in what amounts to a widespread war against women.

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

She pretended he knew some of her thoughts, only some of them, the ones she would like to show him.

They're married people." Lila had no particular notion of what the word "married" meant, except that there was an endless, pleasant joke between them that excluded everybody else and that all the rest of them were welcome to admire.