SOLITUDE: Listening Within for Meaning and Understanding
Alone and independent, feeling content, peaceful and accepting. Wanting introspection and meditation.
Solitude is a peaceful presence, not an empty absence. It is a desire to spend time alone in stillness and meditation of the heart and mind to strengthen our talents, to overcome our weaknesses, to forgive our mistakes, and to understand and accept ourselves as we are. It is discovering a soulful purpose in life that inspires meaning and joy. Solitude creates an inner honesty that allows us to expose our vulnerability with others, so we can share and care more in our relationships..
"What lies behind you and what lies before you are small things, compared to what lies within you."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
