Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.
You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul's most powerful spiritual advancements.
But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.
When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.
Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.
I have a theory about soul mates -- that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.
To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.
Good sexual chemistry is fundamental to a vibrant intimate relationship.
The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.
I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.
Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.
Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other people affect her too much. Her last film is to me so inspiring and the way she sees war, the way she set up those really intimate relationships in and amongst this carnage.
It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.