The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness