Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy. (Henri Nouwen)

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Henri Nouwen

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