Status Updates From The Art of Solitude

- the author talks about the metric structure of the four eights poems as an analogy for solitude and what it can provide us. By remaining in the structure of solitude, we give ourselves rules to guide our thinking that exist outside of the necessity for others and most importantly self — the ego and its drive to operate in social society.

Like others, I find his perspective on drug use problematic and not really well supported, and especially not in alignment with his wider teachings. It seems too much like he feels the need to justify his own desired use of a variety of drugs by making the claim that they have been given a bad rap and that everyone should use them (though in controlled and specific ways). Messy, this part

reading this before bed is healing me - truly