“What Do You First Do When You Learn To Swim? You Make Mistakes, Do You Not? And What Happens? You

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them and their response is “you’re safe with me” - that’s intimacy.”

— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A concept: being at an empty beach with your lover looking at the stars with a glass of wine in hand. Surrounded in comfortable silence & the sound of waves crashing on the shore.

“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.”

— Philip Arnold

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

“If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!”

— Papaji

What is this place between hopeless romantic and strong independent individual