Solitude
“When one is not alone when one is alone, when one is aware of a goodly presence within oneself, then one has achieved solitude. Our popular culture is a tacit agreement to flee the terror of loneliness, and it therefore circumvents the possibility of solitude. The avoidance of solitude is the flight, ultimately, from oneself. Paradoxically, it is only in solitude that our creativity and our gift to others will be found.… The suffering of loneliness brings the encounter with the Self, which is found in the attainment of solitude, which becomes the source from which the new, the unique images of the individual arise to enhance, differentiate, and expand the collective sphere.”
— James Hollis (The Archetypal Imagination, 2000, pp. 92, 94)
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