Intimacy is an informant. Not the kind of informant that shares inappropriate information, but the kind that teslls us exactly what we need to know. If we allow ourselves to listen close, it whispers everything we are hiding from ourselves and each other. It shines a bright light on our unresolved shadow, exposing all the layers of armor that prevent us from being truly present with each other. Intimacy is surely 'in-to-me-see,', but it is also the only way to uncover the obstructions to true connection. Because we can only connect with another to the depths that we connect with ourselves. If we are a step back from lur own hearts, we wil always be a step back from everyone else's too. - Jeff Brown, Hearticulations