Why is it that you can spend decades in close proximity with someone and still experience them as alien? Or meet someone for the first time and feel like you have always known them?
Because intimacy is not about physical distance or time. Real intimacy is about an expansive openness, an all-embracing acceptance and a deep understanding, which comes primarily from accepting and knowing yourself.
This self-knowledge and acceptance enables others to open up to you and allows you to accept and know the other as intimately as yourself.
Ultimately, real intimacy is discovering that you exist in the other.
It is finding yourself Home in the Other.
And discovering that they exist in you.
May Allah grant us that.
image: with thanks via Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
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