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(Intimacy vs. familiarity)

(Intimacy vs. familiarity)

Michael: Yes, my dear, you point out a wonderful contrast. When you consider intimacy and familiarity, they are almost exact opposites. Intimacy means a genuine sharing and, as I taught tonight, it is only possible when you relinquish yourself, when you see a spiritual value of self-forgetfulness as a precursor--a necessity--for genuine intimacy.

Michael: Yes, my dear, you point out a wonderful contrast. When you consider intimacy and familiarity, they are almost exact opposites. Intimacy means a genuine sharing and, as I taught tonight, it is only possible when you relinquish yourself, when you see a spiritual value of self-forgetfulness as a precursor--a necessity--for genuine intimacy.

You are a finite being. You only have so much mind and spirit and body to be aware of. Your awareness is limited. And so this is the necessity for self-forgetfulness, emptying yourself, turning your awareness and focus from yourself onto another in order to accept them, in order to let them into you. It means you are more fully perceiving them, and hearing them.   

You are a finite being. You only have so much mind and spirit and body to be aware of. Your awareness is limited. And so this is the necessity for self-forgetfulness, emptying yourself, turning your awareness and focus from yourself onto another in order to accept them, in order to let them into you. It means you are more fully perceiving them, and hearing them.