The gods of our ancestors were, on the whole, gods of the wild places;

You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.

You have an inchoate, inarticulate, groping feeling that there is something else, something more, something that may be scary but may also be beautiful.

In addition to looking at how you spend your leisure time, it is also interesting to look at your own ‘maintenance’ time. This is partly because household maintenance is something that not only can be, but often is, done alone. If you are trying to find time for solitude, you may already have it if you stop seeing vacuuming as a disagreeable task

‘You have to practise letting go of the inner chatter that can get in the way of what you want to accomplish,’

a well-stocked mind enhances creativity,

a mental store of beautiful or useful items offers security, frees one from complete dependence on oneself and appears to aid balance and sanity in solitude.

Solitude can happen to anyone: we are all at risk.

Nothing is more destructive of warm relations than the person who endlessly ‘doesn’t mind’.