Diary of an existentialist “Don’t give in to man, give in to love.” OSHO What is intimacy? Intimacy means being completely open to another. To expose what is inside you, what is hidden behind smiles, masks, and images. To expose what is hidden behind the personality that is formed in society, and for society. It is at such a moment that fear enters. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is there. To be with someone means to expose yourself, intimacy is possible when all layers, all defenses, and masks are discarded. Otherwise it will be an illusory game. It will be fiction, not reality. In such a game you can deceive everything and everyone, but yourself? By playing an illusory game for years, decades, you can deceive (convince) your relatives, loved ones, and superiors into those feigned successful images that you play. But what will you get from all this? Another trip to a psychologist, that everything is bad, that you are missing something, no one understands you, that you are lonely? Being natural is not difficult, but it takes courage. Being anything but natural is difficult and is what causes tension, anxiety, dissatisfaction, etc. By deceiving others and yourself, you are left alone with your falsehood. And that feeling that you are missing something, that you are missing something, is nothing more than the voice of the soul that you are not living. You don't live life, you don't celebrate life, you don't breathe life - you coexist. The body breathes, but life passes you by. When you live a lie, an illusory life, how is relaxation, grace, beauty, freedom, harmony, pleasure possible, unity with someone, with Being? All these things are not possible when there is hypocrisy. The desire for intimacy is present in every person, otherwise the feeling comes that you are alone in this world. Everyone wants intimacy, and at the same time, everyone is afraid to open up to the other. Shutting yourself off from everyone is not an option, and if you open up, you don’t know what to do with it later. What can someone else do about it? Without true intimacy, life is not possible, freedom is impossible, gratitude is impossible. Therefore, a person needs understanding, a new vision, to find resources within himself, to move into intimacy with fearlessness, with freedom, with grace. Co-authored with a true existentialist ──────── • ✺ • ──────── “Life is a journey into mystery, it is the poetry of a flowing river, The ability to penetrate into their essence is the song of running water"