How Solitude Feeds the Brain
Although the inner life is developed through a relationship with externals – whether it’s books, art or nature, philosophy or religion – the inner life is a private place.
Jeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes
“I can’t seem to walk with the herd anymore. I guess I’ve been alone for so long, that I’m comfortable keeping to myself. I find so much fucking beauty and solice in solitude. Everything I find perfect is in oneness. A girl with flowers in her hair who can dance freely, alone. With herself and no one else. Reading a book in a quiet corner during a ... See more
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One, Thomas Merton said, “In the moment of your death, you can get all the people in the room with you that you want. They can all climb up in bed with you if you want, but you’re dying alone, and you’re that alone right now. And you’ll never find the intimacy you’re looking for by avoiding it. Because hidden in
... See moreThe lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and hersel
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