Tag: ego

Detachment is Not Indifference

Although most western-culture dictionaries treat detachment and indifference as synonyms, they have a crucial difference.  Their common element — non-reaction — is paralleled by indifference’s additional qualities — coldness, passionlessness, lack of feeling/sympathy.   I thought my friend Chris said it…

Helen Maupin

In-to-me-see

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.  Joyce Brothers How would you define intimacy?  The definition I am most interested in is “close familiarity or friendship.”  Typically,…