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Another aspect of openness is intimacy. The quickest access to Truth, and also to beauty, is when you are totally intimate with all of experience, the inner and the outer, even if the experience isn't "good." 

When you are being intimate with the whole of experience, the divided mind has to let go of whatever its project is at the moment. In this intimacy, one becomes very open and discovers a vastness. Whether the qualities of the experience are unpleasant or beautiful, as soon as you are intimate with the whole of experience, there is openness.

When there is intimacy with all of the experience of the moment, awareness is not limited to what's happening in your emotional body, your physical body, your perceptions, or your thoughts. There is just one whole perceiving itself, feeling itself, or thinking itself, and whatever is happening tends to resolve itself. When the whole perceives itself, it is very different than when the I is having an experience. 

- Adyashanti, 'Emptiness Dancing'