Does intimacy survive impermanence? I think that more than anything, intimacy is increased when one realizes impermanence. The two go hand in hand. However, the qualifier to this statement is that a different kind of intimacy emerges, which is based on a sense of gratitude. It's not about desiring, since desiring is grasping that which cannot ever really be grasped. Even one's emotions, however strong they may happen to be, are continually shifting and changing all the time. But with a sense of gratitude, one can contain all these changes and be able to see that everything is good and has its place in the entire pattern of things. Perhaps this is real gratitude: to be able to see individual things in the context of wholes, rather than taking the one part as the whole itself.
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