As long as intimacy is confused with desire and passion, with the expression of personal feelings, with sex, with being close to another person without realizing the necessity of the third of the world, all of the problems of the past, carried in memory, and all the fantasies that erotic love inspires will dominate and make relationships difficult, and even more difficult in the future than they are now. Men and women need to be together in the world, working together, sharing a common interest, an interest that goes beyond themselves, an interest in the future of the world.
— Robert Sardello, Love and the Soul