Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tens…

Henri Nouwen
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Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. ✨ Henri Nouwen (2013). Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective, p.24, Image
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Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. ✨ Henri Nouwen (2013). Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective, p.24, Image

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