Solitude is the state of being alone without being lonely. It is a positive and constructive state of engagement with oneself. Solitude is desirable, a state of being alone where you provide yourself wonderful and sufficient company.
Solitude is a time that can be used for reflection, inner searching or growth or enjoyment of some kind. Deep reading requires solitude, so does experiencing the beauty of nature. Thinking and creativity usually do too.
Solitude suggests peacefulness stemming from a state of inner richness. It is a means of enjoying the quiet and whatever it brings. that is satisfying and from which we draw sustenance. It is something we cultivate. Solitude is refreshing; an opportunity to renew ourselves. In other words, it replenishes us.
Gift of solitude: spend some time in silence
I finally realized today that Ms. Bitch has been bestowing on us a gift of solitude these past few weeks. I, for one, am appreciative of her random act of kindness and hope that she continues to shower us with this gift of silence!
I encourage Mediocre Travis to give the gift of solitude for the rest of the week (or even the rest of the month!) What a wonderful gift to bestow on us all!
I have decided to spend the next few hours in silence. I may read a book or watch a movie that makes you "think about things."
May Sarton:
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Pearl S. Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck:
I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. 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 person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
IN CELEBRATION of SILENCE---a poem to encourage you in today RAOK!
Silence
A day of Silence
Can be a pilgrimage in itself.
A day of Silence
Can help you listen
To the Soul play
Its marvellous lute and drum.
Is not most talking
A crazed defence of a crumbling fort?
I thought we came here
To surrender in Silence,
To yield to Light and Happiness,
To Dance within
In celebration of Love’s Victory!
From: “I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz: by Daniel Ladinsky.
SOUNDS OF SILENCE
BJORK EVEN ENJOYS SOLITUDE
EVANESCENCE--SOLITUDE
CLIFF RICHARD
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There's nothing like the gift of solitude.
For me, loving compassionate understanding, comprised of both psychological and spiritual understandings, is the ascension of love that rises above the world, that Jesus embrace, not with boastfulness or pride, but rather in truthfulness of the subtle and deeper feelings of love that reaches God’s love.
Jesus asked for us to reach beyond his reach, and it is this that most of the world does not realize fully yet, that while Jesus certainly did ascend above the useless and so unnecessary pettiness of heart of those around him at the time, he realized that he could not do it alone, and truthfully, today we know fully the way in which psychologists are indeed working together and with us in achieving a healthier more loving world, for ourselves and especially for our kids.
Indeed the world is ascending to God’s loving compassionate wisdom, comprised not just of spirituality but also of the findings of so many case studies compiled to day for us to see clearly the end results of what works and what does not work, where forecasts are projected for those who chose to remain ignorant of issues that may pertain to their own lives.
For me, I see psychology as my own spirituality or a new church of greater understanding the far exceeds any religious group today.
I look back over the years and see clearly why it has been possible for me to sense God’s presence with me, that is the direct result of combined understandings for sake of what I have come to know as the Divine True Self in all of us.
Behold, the kingdom of heaven is all around us, where sight restored to the soul is by means of our loving compassionate wisdoms that nurture and protect the Divine True Self, where by means of our feelings in each passing moment we are able to know fully where the kingdom of heaven is.
We dwell in the kingdom of heaven where love devoid of doubt and fear is possible by means of the truth wisdoms comprised of both psychology and spirituality grounded in Truth.
Truth does not fail, and rather it is we who fail to acknowledge and learn about the truth wisdoms available for all to read about.
One merely needs to ask the question, “Does love feel good for us?”
May everyone’s day become more loving than the last, where the True Self yearns to dwell, and does dwell, feeling each moment that passes…although we can all do with more love for one another instead of all these useless and silly bitternesses of heart that is not good for anyone to feel, and indeed is what holds down the potential for all of mankind, where all of mankind in each passing moment, indeed feels the truth of the unfortunate, yet fixable, spiritual poverty that yet exists in the world for so many.
My heart goes out to all the loving children in the world that are blatantly disregarded, for they are the corner stone of love that society unwisely throws away. For sake of our own loving hearts, we all need to pick up the corner stone of love and carry the child with us into the future, where in doing so we alter the future forever.
LOVE is the FUTURE, always here with us in the present, in each and every moment that passes.
Any loving feeling, act or word spoken is of God’s love, and is always welcomed by God, for indeed God loves his children yet so lost and in great sorrows of the spiritual poverty yet of the world.
I feel optimistic for the future, knowing that love has been building up over the centuries, finding us today where we are, feeling love within that is exceeding joyfulness for us to know.
Free spirited ascension of loving compassionate wisdom of the Divine True Self forever at play.
It is all these things unloving that are responsible for the continued spiritual poverty of the earth, where God’s loving compassionate wisdom reveals all things, making them obvious and visible for all to see clearly the truth.
I despise hypocrisy that is unwise, that foolishly thinks it can destroy the loving souls of God’s love.
Darkness is the ignorant void of nonethingness, devoid of love.
Light is the wisdom that shines, revealing all things obvious in the heart, so that we may pluck it from our loving hearts, in order to leave only room for love to grow.
~ Truth
…in each passing moment.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I seek the simplicity of life, just as I always did, such as holding the hand of someone we love.
Have you ever tryed to pretend to hold the hand of someone you did not love, for whatever reason?
I have…and I walked away from it, knowing I was lying about my feelings.
Sometimes we do stupid things in life.
When it comes to your own loving feelings of another, don’t be stupid about them, let them know.
If they feel the same way, great!
If not, then who truly wants to pretend someone loves them and does not?
Not me…bin there…done that…silly foolishness.
Let love be your direction in life, in all the things you do or say.
The Eternal Tree of Life…
…where the future is always right here in the present in everything we do or say.
and indeed, where truth is also in the things we don’t do or say.
Embrace a future of love…casting all things unloving from our own hearts, where the light of truth reveals all things for our loving hearts and minds do see obviously, all things loving that are of God’s love and all things unloving that is not of God’s love.
Spiritual life is all things loving.
Spiritual death is all things unloving.
Where our heart is, there too is our treasure, and our life…at all times.
What turn towards we become…at all times.
Truly we know, there is no greater treasure in life, than our own loving heart, mind, body and soul.
Blessed are those who are loving.
Thank you father. Thank you to all who are loving.
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