“But if we don’t have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude. This reflects the impoverishment of our experience. If we don’t know the satisfactions of solitude, we only know the panic of loneliness.”
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
“To reclaim solitude we have to learn to experience a moment of boredom as a reason to turn inward, to defer going “elsewhere” at least some of the time.”
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
“Congratulations, the new slip said. You made it.”
― The Book of Form and Emptiness
― The Book of Form and Emptiness
“In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.”
― The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love
― The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love
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