When two lovers are really open to each other, when they are not afraid of each other and not hiding anything from each other, that is intimacy. When the can say each and everything without any fear that the other will be offended or hurt ….. If the lover thinks the other will be offended, then the intimacy is not yet deep enough. Then it is a kind of arrangement which can be broken by anything. But when two lovers start feeling that there is nothing to hide and everything can be said, and the trust has come to such a depth where even if you don’t say it the other is going to know, then they start becoming one.

The word intimacy comes from the Latin root intimum, which means your interiority, your innermost core. Unless you have something there you cant be intimate with anybody. You cannot allow intimum, intimacy because they will see the hole, the wound, and the puss oozing out of it. They will see that you don’t know who you are and you don’t know where you are going. That you have not even heard your own song that your life is chaos. Hence the fear of intimacy.

Intimacy is allowing the other to come into you, to see you as you see yourself, to allow the other to see you from your inside, to invite somebody to that deepest core of your being. Love is the goal and once the goal is clear, you start growing an inner richness. The wound disappears, the wound is transformed into a lotus. That is the miracle of love, the magic of love. Love is the greatest alchemical force in the world. Those who know how to use it can reach the highest peak called God. – Osho