🌙 Solitude

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“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

— Unknown

#solitude #maturity #growth

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

— Edward Gibbon

#solitude #genius #learning

“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.”

— Nikola Tesla

#solitude #creativity #mind

“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles but only by a spiritual journey”

— Wendell Berry

#solitude #spiritual #discovery

“Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others rather it means never living apart from ones self”

— Parker Palmer

#solitude #self-connection #togetherness

“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end”

— Sylvia Plath

#solitude #desire #depth

“Solitude is the cure for the sickness caused by company”

— Petrarch

#solitude #cure #company

“Silence is a place of great power and healing”

— Sara Maitland

#solitude #silence #power

“Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace”

— Vicki Robin

#solitude #chaos #inner peace

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone and if he does not love solitude he will not love freedom”

— Seneca

#solitude #freedom #authenticity

“Solitude is not a private therapeutic place but the place of conversion”

— Henri Nouwen

#solitude #conversion #growth

“The purpose of all our effort is to achieve purity of heart”

— Cassian

#solitude #heart #purity

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#solitude #freedom #authenticity

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems”

— Wislawa Szymborska

#solitude #writing #absurdity

“How wild it was to let it be”

— Cheryl Strayed

#solitude #wildness #letting be

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

— Blaise Pascal

#solitude #quiet #problems

“The place where we are right is hard and trampled like a yard but doubts and loves dig up the world like a mole a plow”

— Yehuda Amichai

#solitude #doubt #digging

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakes”

— Carl Jung

#solitude #vision #heart

“Our lives are filled with noise and activity but the deepest truth is born in silence”

— Wayne Muller

#solitude #noise #truth

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

— Julian of Norwich

#solitude #assurance #peace

“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.”

— Gautama Buddha

#solitude #discipline #Buddhism

“On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree”

— W.S. Merwin

#solitude #planting #hope

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”

— Pema Chodron

#solitude #honesty #courage

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”

— Marcel Proust

#solitude #discovery #new eyes

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey”

— Wendell Berry

#solitude #not-knowing #real work

“A talent is formed in stillness a character in the world stream of life”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#solitude #talent #character

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

— Tara Brach

#solitude #pain #choice

“I am quite comfortable alone with my thoughts and my purpose”

— Abraham Lincoln

#solitude #thoughts #purpose

“Solitude is a way of waiting for the inexpressible and the unknowable to make itself felt”

— Sadhguru

#solitude #waiting #unknowable

“Once you fall into a reflective life you discover how little you need”

— Virginia Woolf

#solitude #reflection #simplicity

“Let me not look for allies in lifes battlefield but to my own strength alone”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#solitude #strength #independence

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous — to poetry.”

— Thomas Mann

#solitude #creativity #beauty

“Wilderness is the place where we learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable alone”

— Brene Brown

#solitude #wilderness #comfort

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

— Thomas Keating

#solitude #silence #divine language

“Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it”

— Rumi

#solitude #barriers #love

“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”

— Ikkyu

#solitude #nature #letters

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#solitude #companionship #self-sufficiency

“Knowing others is intelligence but knowing yourself is true wisdom”

— Lao Tzu

#solitude #self-knowledge #wisdom

“The winds of grace blow all the time all we need to do is set our sails”

— Ramakrishna

#solitude #grace #sails

“Solitude shows us the way back to our essential beauty which waits for us under our covering of opinions and attitudes”

— Roger Housden

#solitude #essential beauty #uncovering

“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #compassion #depth

“Go back and pick up what you have left behind your creative life your ideas your dreams your hopes your original nature”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#solitude #reclaiming #original nature

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

— Erling Kagge

#solitude #inside #engagement

“You must understand the whole of life not just one little part of it that is why you must read that is why you must look at the skies that is why you must sing and dance”

— J. Krishnamurti

#solitude #wholeness #living

“Be melting snow wash yourself of yourself”

— Rumi

#solitude #melting #self-washing

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”

— Alan Watts

#solitude #clarity #patience

“The quieter you become the more you can hear”

— Ram Dass

#solitude #quiet #hearing

“Silence is not about hearing nothing silence is about hearing everything at once”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

#solitude #silence #totality

“When the mind is free from all conditions it is called basic mind”

— Joshu

#solitude #freedom #basic mind

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness”

— Meister Eckhart

#solitude #stillness #God

“In order to understand the world one has to turn away from it on occasion”

— Albert Camus

#solitude #understanding #turning away

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

— Walt Whitman

#solitude #existence #enough

“In the middle of the forest there is an unexpected clearing which can only be found by those who have gotten lost”

— Tomas Transtromer

#solitude #clearing #lostness

“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”

— Hafiz

#solitude #freedom #keys

“You do not need to leave your room to discover the world”

— Franz Kafka

#solitude #discovery #inner world

“To be alone with your own thoughts is a luxury that most cannot afford”

— Michael Harris

#solitude #thoughts #luxury

“You are the sky everything else is just the weather”

— Pema Chodron

#solitude #sky #weather

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace”

— Ajahn Chah

#solitude #letting go #peace

“Solitude is the place of purification.”

— Martin Luther

#solitude #purification #spiritual

“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

#solitude #loss #kindness

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through in its cocoon”

— Maya Angelou

#solitude #transformation #beauty

“That is what learning is you suddenly understand something that you have understood all your life but in a new way”

— Doris Lessing

#solitude #learning #understanding

“In silence and stillness a devout soul makes progress and learns the hidden things of the scriptures”

— Thomas a Kempis

#solitude #progress #hidden things

“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”

— Lao Tzu

#solitude #contentment #wholeness

“The person who has not learned to be alone is a person who does not know themselves.”

— Lao Tzu

#solitude #self-knowledge #wisdom

“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”

— Ellen Burstyn

#solitude #discovery #joy

“Aloneness is not loneliness loneliness is a negative state aloneness is positive aloneness is full”

— Osho

#solitude #aloneness #fullness

“Let the one who cannot be alone beware of community”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#solitude #community #balance

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#solitude #freedom #authenticity

“The root of joy is gratefulness it is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful”

— David Steindl-Rast

#solitude #gratitude #joy

“Dare to declare who you are it is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech”

— Hildegard of Bingen

#solitude #declaration #silence

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

— Mark Strand

#solitude #absence #presence

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

— Rumi

#solitude #silence #eloquence

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#solitude #freedom #independence

“Where should the swordsman fix his mind nowhere let the body and limbs work themselves out according to a discipline they have undergone”

— Takuan Soho

#solitude #nowhere #mastery

“Happiness is not in objects nor in events nor in experiences it is in us”

— Francis Lucille

#solitude #happiness #within

“In our natural state we are glorious beings in the world of illusion we are lost and imprisoned slaves to our appetites and our will to false power”

— Marianne Williamson

#solitude #natural state #illusion

“The flower does not dream of the bee it blossoms and the bee comes”

— Mark Nepo

#solitude #blossoming #attraction

“Settle into solitude as if it were the one thing in the world you know how to do.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #acceptance #stillness

“Not thinking about anything is Zen once you know this walking sitting or lying down everything you do is Zen”

— Bodhidharma

#solitude #not-thinking #zen

“The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer”

— Brother Lawrence

#solitude #prayer #work

“Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self”

— May Sarton

#solitude #richness #self

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know in our solitude”

— Pema Chodron

#solitude #lessons #patience

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you”

— Anne Lamott

#solitude #unplugging #rest

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#solitude #simplicity #friendship

“Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others but rather a practice of mindful presence”

— Parker Palmer

#solitude #presence #mindfulness

“We do not come into this world we come out of it as leaves from a tree as the ocean waves the universe peoples”

— Alan Watts

#solitude #belonging #universe

“Ever since happiness heard your name it has been running through the streets trying to find you”

— Hafiz

#solitude #happiness #seeking

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

— Galway Kinnell

#solitude #potential #budding

“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community let him who is not in community beware of being alone”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#solitude #community #balance

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am I am I am”

— Sylvia Plath

#solitude #self #heartbeat

“Try to praise the mutilated world”

— Adam Zagajewski

#solitude #praise #mutilated world

“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself”

— Matsuo Basho

#solitude #sitting #spring

“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other”

— George Eliot

#solitude #purpose #helping

“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste much of it in noise”

— Seneca

#solitude #time #noise

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#solitude #loneliness #self-company

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”

— Albert Camus

#solitude #depth #resilience

“I dwell in possibility”

— Emily Dickinson

#solitude #possibility #dwelling

“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let go”

— Jack Kornfield

#solitude #reflection #letting go

“Inhabited space transcends geometrical space”

— Gaston Bachelard

#solitude #space #inhabiting

“Happiness is a skill that can be trained and solitude is one of its training grounds”

— Matthieu Ricard

#solitude #happiness #training

“To walk in beauty means to walk with gratitude and appreciation for the natural world”

— Angeles Arrien

#solitude #walking #beauty

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

— James Russell Lowell

#solitude #imagination #balance

“Solitude is the place of purification”

— Martin Buber

#solitude #purification #cleansing

“I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide”

— Billy Collins

#solitude #poems #light

“The thief left it behind the moon at my window”

— Ryokan

#solitude #moon #simplicity

“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

— Emily Brontë

#solitude #self-reliance #society

“Go sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everything”

— Desert Fathers

#solitude #cell #teaching

“There is no savor more sweet more salt than to be glad to be what woman and who myself I am”

— Denise Levertov

#solitude #self-gladness #identity

“I have learned how faces fall how terror peers from lowered eyes”

— Anna Akhmatova

#solitude #witness #compassion

“Silence is essential for deep transformation to take place”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#solitude #silence #transformation

“Are you looking for me I am in the next seat my shoulder is against yours”

— Kabir

#solitude #nearness #presence

“In the dark night of the soul bright flows the river of God”

— John of the Cross

#solitude #dark night #river

“To write poetry one must bring full attention to the task”

— Jane Hirshfield

#solitude #attention #poetry

“When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with yourself when you lose touch with yourself you lose yourself in the world”

— Eckhart Tolle

#solitude #stillness #self

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness found in solitary acceptance”

— Zhuangzi

#solitude #happiness #acceptance

“The person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week, has missed life's greatest serenity.”

— Lin Yutang

#solitude #contentment #serenity

“The little things they are not little”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#solitude #small things #awareness

“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

— William Penn

#solitude #silence #rest

“Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”

— Walter Savage Landor

#solitude #spirituality #reflection

“In silence and in quiet the devout soul advances and learns the hidden meanings”

— Thomas a Kempis

#solitude #quiet #learning

“The separate self is an intermittent experience awareness is the ever-present background”

— Rupert Spira

#solitude #awareness #background

“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and solitude to express the glory”

— Paul Tillich

#solitude #loneliness #language

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

— Eckhart Tolle

#solitude #stillness #self

“Whenever you are creating beauty around you you are restoring your own soul”

— Alice Walker

#solitude #creation #soul

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

— Hermann Hesse

#solitude #sanctuary #stillness

“Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences”

— Cal Newport

#solitude #own thoughts #focus

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

— Ramana Maharshi

#solitude #silence #teaching

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul”

— Marcus Aurelius

#solitude #soul #retreat

“Aloneness is a flower a lotus blooming in your heart”

— Osho

#solitude #flower #blooming

“Seclusion is the price of greatness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#solitude #greatness #seclusion

“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen.”

— Francis Philip Frangipane

#solitude #individuality #courage

“Everything is a passing show learn to enjoy the show”

— Robert Adams

#solitude #passing #enjoyment

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”

— Wendell Berry

#solitude #wild things #peace

“Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend march swiftly to places where you are not expected”

— Sun Tzu

#solitude #strategy #unexpected

“Retire into yourself for the rational principle that rules has this nature: to be content with itself”

— Marcus Aurelius

#solitude #self #contentment

“Solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company”

— Hannah Arendt

#solitude #self-company #human

“Your unborn mind is not something you learned how to have you were born with it”

— Bankei

#solitude #unborn mind #natural

“The soul is healed by being with children and by being in solitude with ones own thoughts”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#solitude #healing #thoughts

“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”

— Fernando Pessoa

#solitude #duality #enjoyment

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

— Virginia Woolf

#solitude #room #independence

“The capacity to be alone is a valuable resource when changes of mental attitude are required”

— Anthony Storr

#solitude #capacity #change

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”

— Octavio Paz

#solitude #humanity #consciousness

“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”

— William Wordsworth

#solitude #inward eye #bliss

“And stand together yet not too near together for the pillars of the temple stand apart and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow”

— Kahlil Gibran

#solitude #togetherness #space

“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious world”

— Henry Miller

#solitude #attention #mystery

“A wandering mind is a sign that something is wrong with our prayer”

— Evagrius Ponticus

#solitude #mind #prayer

“An honorable human relationship is one in which two people have the right to use the word love”

— Adrienne Rich

#solitude #love #honoring

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed”

— Khalil Gibran

#solitude #friendship #balance

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living we live ourselves into new ways of thinking”

— Richard Rohr

#solitude #living #thinking

“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew and in that there is joy”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#solitude #freedom #renewal

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #patience #questions

“You need not leave your room remain sitting at your table and listen do not even listen simply wait be quiet still and solitary the world will freely offer itself to you”

— Franz Kafka

#solitude #waiting #world

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

— Kahlil Gibran

#solitude #heart #secrets

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort”

— Jane Austen

#solitude #home #comfort

“Within each of us there is a silence a silence as vast as a universe we are afraid of it and we long for it”

— Gunilla Norris

#solitude #inner silence #vastness

“I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out and I say oh I am miserable what shall I do and the sea says in its lovely voice excuse me I have work to do”

— Mary Oliver

#solitude #nature #sea

“You wanna fly you got to give up the stuff that weighs you down”

— Toni Morrison

#solitude #lightness #flying

“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees but first I must learn what spring does alone”

— Pablo Neruda

#solitude #spring #learning

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise but seek what they sought in solitary contemplation”

— Matsuo Basho

#solitude #wisdom #seeking

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone”

— Schopenhauer

#solitude #authenticity #self

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”

— Patricia Highsmith

#solitude #imagination #creativity

“There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm”

— Willa Cather

#solitude #calm #learning

“I celebrate myself and sing myself”

— Walt Whitman

#solitude #celebration #self

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

— Susan Cain

#solitude #breath #necessity

“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”

— Adyashanti

#solitude #fading #luminous awareness

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition man is the only being who knows he is alone”

— Octavio Paz

#solitude #human condition #awareness

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

— Montaigne

#solitude #self-belonging #greatness

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

— Rumi

#solitude #silence #God

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

— Teresa of Avila

#solitude #divine #self-discovery

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live”

— Bertrand Russell

#solitude #quiet #joy

“I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after in the silence of my soul”

— Emily Bronte

#solitude #dreams #soul

“In solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of things”

— Thomas Merton

#solitude #nakedness #being

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you”

— David Whyte

#solitude #aloneness #aliveness

“In a day when you dont come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”

— Vivekananda

#solitude #problems #path

“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work”

— Gustave Flaubert

#solitude #discipline #creativity

“Settle into solitude like a tree in the midst of a vast plain — rooted, silent, and alive.”

— Rumi

#solitude #stillness #nature

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

— Thomas Merton

#solitude #expansion #life

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

— Octavia Butler

#solitude #change #truth

“The great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitude”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#solitude #independence #crowd

“I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian a Hindu a Muslim a Buddhist a Jew”

— Hafiz

#solitude #universality #learning

“When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#solitude #self-knowledge #connection

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition”

— Octavio Paz

#solitude #humanity #existence

“Solitude is the companion of greatness and the nurse of genius”

— Petrarch

#solitude #greatness #genius

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays”

— Confucius

#solitude #silence #friendship

“Things wont just lean together and create what we need to live”

— Kay Ryan

#solitude #self-creation #effort

“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”

— Ted Hughes

#solitude #heart investment #courage

“When you know who you are everything else falls into place”

— Jean Klein

#solitude #self-knowledge #order

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self to study the self is to forget the self”

— Dogen

#solitude #self-study #forgetting

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

— Confucius

#solitude #realization #life

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

— Rumi

#solitude #peace #acceptance

“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”

— Albert Einstein

#solitude #creativity #quiet

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

— Teresa of Ávila

#solitude #spirituality #inner peace

“The supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization”

— Anandamayi Ma

#solitude #self-realization #calling

“In the quiet hours of reflection we find the truest version of ourselves”

— Albert Schweitzer

#solitude #reflection #truth

“When you cease to fear your solitude a new creativity awakens in you”

— John O Donohue

#solitude #fearlessness #creativity

“The best portion of a good life is the little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love done in quiet”

— William Wordsworth

#solitude #kindness #quiet

“Be alone and watch what happens when you are alone and totally accepting of your aloneness”

— Osho

#solitude #acceptance #watching

“What is poetry which does not save nations or people”

— Czeslaw Milosz

#solitude #poetry #salvation

“All life is yoga”

— Sri Aurobindo

#solitude #life #yoga

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”

— Pablo Picasso

#solitude #work #creativity

“The only journey is the one within”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #inner journey #self

“Be alone that is the secret of invention be alone that is when ideas are born”

— Nikola Tesla

#solitude #invention #ideas

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

— Papaji

#solitude #stopping #finding

“Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom mastering others is strength mastering yourself is true power”

— Lao Tzu

#solitude #self-mastery #wisdom

“The quieter you become the more you can hear the universe speaking”

— Rumi

#solitude #quiet #universe

“In the stillness of the night I have walked with you and we have spoken in the silence of our hearts”

— Khalil Gibran

#solitude #night #connection

“I have become my own version of an optimist if I cant make it through one door I will go through another or I will make a door”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#solitude #optimism #doors

“We write to taste life twice in the moment and in retrospect”

— Anais Nin

#solitude #writing #reflection

“We live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#solitude #resistance #change

“The sole cause of human unhappiness is that people do not know how to sit quietly in a room”

— Blaise Pascal

#solitude #stillness #contentment

“In the darkness two shadows reaching through the hopeless heavy dusk their hands met and light spilled in a flood like a survey of the sun”

— Madeline Miller

#solitude #darkness #connection

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”

— Simone Weil

#solitude #attention #generosity

“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space free from the outside pressures.”

— Marya Mannes

#solitude #loneliness #modern life

“The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once and my conviction is to report that dialogue”

— Stanley Kunitz

#solitude #living dying #dialogue

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#solitude #authenticity #despair

“It is easy in the world to live after the worlds 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”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#solitude #independence #crowd

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship”

— Louisa May Alcott

#solitude #storms #learning

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#solitude #self-acceptance #loneliness

“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light to know the dark go dark go without sight and find that the dark too blooms and sings”

— Wendell Berry

#solitude #darkness #blooming

“Attention is the beginning of devotion”

— Mary Oliver

#solitude #attention #devotion

“The quieter you become the more you can hear the whispers of your own soul”

— Ram Dass

#solitude #quiet #soul

“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”

— Howard Thurman

#solitude #aliveness #world

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships”

— Charles Simic

#solitude #lighthouse #inner work

“If you have the words there is always a chance that you will find the way”

— Seamus Heaney

#solitude #words #finding way

“Once you begin to recognize the divine image in yourself you begin to see it everywhere”

— Mooji

#solitude #divine image #recognition

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

— Linji

#solitude #simplicity #natural

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

— Plotinus

#solitude #vision #awakening

“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”

— Paul Tillich

#solitude #loneliness #language

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

— Aristotle

#solitude #philosophy #nature

“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”

— Thomas Edison

#solitude #thinking #clarity

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”

— Lord Byron

#solitude #nature #pleasure

“When we have nothing to cling to as our own we can even welcome the unknown”

— Henri Nouwen

#solitude #unknown #welcome

“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.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#solitude #independence #character

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

— Edith Wharton

#solitude #light #reflection

“The darkness around us is deep”

— Robert Bly

#solitude #darkness #depth

“I have studied the science of departures”

— Osip Mandelstam

#solitude #departures #study

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness”

— Chuang Tzu

#solitude #happiness #non-striving

“What I am pointing to is the possibility of complete and total peace right here right now regardless of any circumstances internal or external”

— Gangaji

#solitude #peace #here now

“Just to be is a blessing just to live is holy”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#solitude #being #blessing

“Walking along dripping wet no umbrella”

— Santoka Taneda

#solitude #walking #rain

“Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#solitude #silence #limits

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#solitude #individual #tribe

“The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”

— Omar Khayyam

#solitude #thought #soul

“From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road”

— Li-Young Lee

#solitude #simple pleasures #presence

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

— Anthony de Mello

#solitude #silence #selflessness

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life for true richness comes from within”

— Socrates

#solitude #busyness #richness

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escape”

— bell hooks

#solitude #loving #art

“People neglect the root and seek the branches”

— Huang Po

#solitude #root #essence

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

— Aldous Huxley

#solitude #originality #mind

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing love tells me I am everything between the two my life flows”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#solitude #wisdom #love

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

— John Muir

#solitude #nature #communion

“One of the lovely things about solitude is that it can happen in the middle of a crowd”

— John O Donohue

#solitude #inner solitude #crowd

“Detached observer just watching the moon I belong to the autumn night”

— Saigyo

#solitude #moon #autumn

“No one is free who is not master of himself and mastery begins in solitude”

— Epictetus

#solitude #mastery #freedom

“If you wish to be a writer write”

— Epictetus

#solitude #writing #simplicity

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#solitude #desert #beauty

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

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#solitude #silence #essential

“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”

— Henrik Ibsen

#solitude #strength #independence

“The time will come when with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door in your own mirror”

— Derek Walcott

#solitude #self-greeting #homecoming

“Solitude was my only consolation deep dark deathlike solitude”

— Mary Shelley

#solitude #consolation #depth

“When you do something you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#solitude #completeness #burning

“The strongest of all warriors are these two: time and patience”

— Leo Tolstoy

#solitude #patience #time

“Nothing is harder to do than nothing”

— Jenny Odell

#solitude #nothing #difficulty

“In an age of speed I began to think nothing could be more invigorating than going slow in an age of distraction nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention”

— Pico Iyer

#solitude #slowness #attention

“Silence is a place of freedom”

— Anne D. LeClaire

#solitude #silence #freedom

“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man.”

— Thomas De Quincey

#solitude #light #power

“What is most personal is most universal”

— Carl Rogers

#solitude #personal #universal

“The art of losing isnt hard to master”

— Elizabeth Bishop

#solitude #loss #mastery

“Wandering is the activity of the child the passion of the genius it is the discovery of the self it is the artist walking”

— Rebecca Solnit

#solitude #wandering #self-discovery

“I love you without knowing how or when or from where I love you simply without problems or pride”

— Pablo Neruda

#solitude #love #simplicity

“Stillness is your essential nature what is stillness it is the inner space in which the words on this page are being perceived”

— Eckhart Tolle

#solitude #stillness #essential nature

“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device you can use it anywhere anytime unobtrusively”

— Sharon Salzberg

#solitude #meditation #portable

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

— Hermann Hesse

#solitude #sanctuary #retreat

“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple”

— Jack Kerouac

#solitude #words #simplicity

“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees”

— Pablo Neruda

#solitude #spring #awakening

“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”

— Ajahn Brahm

#solitude #sitting #jewels

“A room without books is like a body without a soul and solitude without reflection is mere emptiness”

— Cicero

#solitude #books #reflection

“We do not grow absolutely chronologically we grow sometimes in one dimension and not in another”

— Anaïs Nin

#solitude #growth #dimensions

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love”

— Brene Brown

#solitude #self-talk #love

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

— Mary Oliver

#solitude #darkness #gift

“Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity”

— David Whyte

#solitude #alertness #familiarity

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

— Laurence Sterne

#solitude #strength #mind

“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#solitude #inspiration #creativity

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #partnership #guarding

“We look at the world once in childhood the rest is memory”

— Louise Gluck

#solitude #childhood #memory

“We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars”

— Jack Gilbert

#solitude #unlearning #seeing

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#solitude #beauty #soul

“If you want a place to rest Cold Mountain is good white clouds settle on the rocky peaks”

— Han Shan

#solitude #mountain #rest

“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude”

— Nikola Tesla

#solitude #mind #seclusion

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude”

— Henry David Thoreau

#solitude #companionship #comfort

“Silence is a source of great strength”

— Lao Tzu

#solitude #silence #strength

“One is not born free but becomes free through solitary reflection”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#solitude #freedom #becoming

“You do not have to be good you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting”

— Mary Oliver

#solitude #permission #goodness

“Go out into the solitude and close the door behind thee. Let the manifold world that makes thee dizzy vanish from thy sight.”

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#solitude #retreat #spiritual

“I am awfully greedy I want everything from life I want to be a woman and to be a man to have many friends and to have loneliness”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#solitude #wholeness #desire

“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will”

— Charlotte Bronte

#solitude #freedom #independence

“Be still and heal let the forest take away your worries”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#solitude #forest #healing

“The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#solitude #prayer #transformation

“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter everything is within everything exists nowhere else”

— Miyamoto Musashi

#solitude #within #self-sufficiency

“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone”

— Paul Tillich

#solitude #loneliness #glory

“One can never have enough socks a good pair of thick winter socks can bring one closer to that simple peace of solitude”

— Virginia Woolf

#solitude #simplicity #peace

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