And in communion, if it is to succeed, there has to be a process of soul connecting to soul, spirit connecting to spirit. And, of course, body connecting to body, too, is part of the intimacy of the relationship. Equality means no one, no one in the world, is either superior or inferior to me at the level of spirit. We have different qualities of spirit, but we are equal. And when we are drawn to somebody, it is to mutually nourish each other.
Sensitivity is the ability to know what is going on in the other person.
Sensitivity implies that you are comfortable with the fact that people can be emotionally quite troubled and still be normal, and that emotions are frequently conflicting, confusing, paradoxical, contradictory. In order to be sensitive, we have to, at least for the time being, abandon the need to be right all the time. We have to abandon the need to be in control all the time. We have to, for the time being at least, ignore our own needs. That's what sensitivity means.