Between Knowing And Not Knowing

I don't believe the author knows nothing about a novel when she starts writing it. Not knowing allows openness to what is, and I think intimacy is openness to what is and is not knowing and relating to one's thinking, judgments, expectations, concepts put on what is. I've had moments by myself and with others when I have experienced such intimacy. Such moments are present, alive, special and the best of living. Such times are moments in that they are relatively short lived. Reliable means someone or something is dependable and consistent. Everything going on is unreliable in that it is always changing, never the same, and is reliable in that you can count on it always changing. Much is also reliable in that its rate of change is slow enough relative to us humans to be reliable.

I love your answer. Intimacy ist knowing with the body and with your heart instead of the brain. ..to me feeling what IS and being aware of my feelings is a kind of knowing. It also means to be present in the moment. Any kind of judgement destroys this intimacy and this presence immediately.

Thank you. I believe knowing is knowing what is rather than knowing one's thinking. It is nonjudgmental seeing what is rather than seeing thinking and judgments imposed on what is, which as you say destroys or doesn't even allow seeing or knowing.