🌙 Solitude

“When hungry eat when tired sleep fools may laugh at me but wise men will know what I mean”

“Silence is the language of God all else is poor translation”

“The small man builds cages for everyone he knows while the sage who has to duck his head when the moon is low keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was a gift”

“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”

“In silence there is eloquence stop weaving and see how the pattern improves”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated”

“Stop seeking and you will find what you are looking for”

“He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.”

“In our lives we will inevitably face painful experiences but the suffering that accompanies them is optional”

“In solitude we find that our life is not diminished but expanded”

“When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades and your image of the world fades and your ideas of others fade what is left a luminous empty awareness”

“We have two lives and the second begins when we realize we only have one best discovered alone”

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks in solitary communion”

“I exist as I am and that is enough in the grand solitude of being”

“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well”

“If you are lonely when you are alone you are in bad company”

“Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent”

“Silence is essential we need silence just as much as we need air just as much as plants need light”

“In a field I am the absence of field this is always the case wherever I am I am what is missing”

“How wild it was to let it be”

“Silence is about getting inside what you are doing being in the world not just observing it from outside”

“Every day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moon”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”

“For oft when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude”

“Dont ask yourself what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive”

“Settle into solitude as if it were an old friend.”

“The bud stands for all things even for those things that dont flower”

“Silence is not the absence of sound but the absence of self”

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights”

“I sometimes think I enjoy suffering but the truth is I would like the sky to be clear yet I also love clouds and rain”

“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone”

“When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with yourself”

“Do not be afraid of silence do not be afraid of aloneness just sit and the jewels of peace and happiness will come to you”

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself”

“Be content with what you have rejoice in the way things are when you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you”

“Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself.”

“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is change”

“We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all”

“Silence is the true teaching it is the perfect teaching it is suited only for the most advanced seeker”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself”

“Solitude matters and for some people it is the air that they breathe”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”