“The first step is to accept yourself in your totality — in spite of all your traditions, which have driven the whole of humanity insane. Once you have accepted yourself as you are, the fear of intimacy will disappear.
You cannot lose respect, you cannot lose your greatness, you cannot lose your ego. You cannot lose your piousness, you cannot lose your saintliness — you have dropped all that yourself.
You are just like a small child, utterly innocent. You can open yourself because inside you are not filled with ugly repressions that have become perversions. You can say everything that you feel authentically and sincerely.
And if you are ready to be intimate, you will help the other person also to be open to you. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, and openness.”
Intimacy – Trusting Oneself And The Other, Osho, p. 10.
