🌙 Solitude

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

“Walking along dripping wet no umbrella”

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

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

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

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

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

“The little things they are not little”

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

“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.”

“Silence is a place of freedom”

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

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

“If you wish to be a writer write”

“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”

“We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars”

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

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

“People neglect the root and seek the branches”

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

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

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

“Try to praise the mutilated world”

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

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

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

“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”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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”

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

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

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

“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”

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

“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.”

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

“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”

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