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Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
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Junot Diaz
American
Writer
Born:
Dec 31
,
1968
Topics
Intimacy
,
About
,
Questions
,
Infidelity
,
Profound
,
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If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
Love
Great
True Friend
Love Is
Enemy
Fear
Intimacy
Great Enemy
True
Friend
For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.
Anthony Bourdain
Beautiful
Day
Me
You
Light
Dinner
Meal
Intimacy
All Day
Eat
Date
Share
Like
Go
Person
Order
Room
Then
Across
Choose
Save
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
Feeling
Other
Intimacy
Once
Embarrassment
Mutual
Something
Having
Feels
Existed
Effect
Done
Which
Each
Away
Spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives.
Mike Yaconelli
Life
Spiritual
Relationship
Spirituality
Our
Intimacy
Way
Our Lives
About
Spiritual Life
Perfection
Mess
Test
Begins
Where
Formula
Connection
Now
Lives
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand Russell
Life
Love
Best
Intimacy
Those
Mutual
Give
Never
Missed
Known
Intense
Who
Deep
Companionship
Thing
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
Henri Nouwen
Alone
Time
Solitude
Community
Busy
Other
Our
Spend
Intimacy
Directly
Potentially
Write
Simply
Study
Opened
Read
Pray
Very
Quiet
Quiet Time
Interact
Whenever
Where
Different
Which
Places
Ground
Each
Away
Deeper
Lives
Grows
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Brennan Manning
Life
God
Spiritual
Gratitude
Trust
Suffering
Experience
Path
Intimacy
Characteristic
Gifts
Purifying
Spiritual Life
Only
Because
Been
Dominant
Authentic
Often
Shortest
Receive
Flows
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
You
Age
Enemies
Somebody
Sister
Strangers
Intimacy
Colleagues
Brother
Brother And Sister
Through
Soulmate
Go
Friends
Roles
Lovers
Your
Many
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
Iyanla Vanzant
Love
Spiritual
Marriage
Human Being
Mind
Intimacy
Ourselves
Willingly
Give
Open
Share
Heal
Learn
Partnership
Another
Accessible
Human
Being
Order
Which
Available
Create
Union
Grow
Receive
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.
Brene Brown
Trust
Judgment
Intimacy
Outcome
Distrust
Vulnerability
Intention
Little
Connection
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