by Buddhistdoor International Buddhistdoor view One of the more irksome things about contemporary living is the constant, gleeful denigration of the individual state of solitude. Instead of being praised as an essential part of good…
Category : Solitude
by Rachel Astarte Piccione “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” Audrey Hepburn What does solitude…
“Cultivate solitude as a place for paying attention”
by Arup Mitra Simplicity brings one closer to the truth. But lack of simplicity introduces deviations because the biases of a complicated mind are too many, blocking progress towards truth. Simplicity enables one to acquire…
“Go forth in silence, solitude and simplicity. What you leave will be superfluous. What you find will be yourself. You will be blessed by the music of the spheres as the wind sings among the…
“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
by Ruth Haley Barton Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award! Much of our faith and practice is about words―preaching, teaching, talking with others. Yet all of these words are not enough to take us into the real…
by Jane Porter A little time alone can go a long way in spurring your creative thinking and strengthening relationships. I recently got back from a week of solitude in a house off Buzzards Bay…
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with…
A Three Month Buddhist Retreat by Steven Schwartzberg A three-month Buddhist meditation retreat is no less mind-altering an experience than ingesting hallucinogens or traveling to a remote land where nobody speaks your language or knows your…
