LEARN TO BE LONELY... Dear Ones — A friend of this page asked me today if I wo... | Official Website for Best Selling Author Elizabeth Gilbert
No matter our circumstances, with effort, we can learn to control our attention. We can accept responsibility for our own happiness and look inside ourselves for the light we can always find. As a flourishing friend told me, “I have everything I need to be happy right between my ears.”
Mary Pipher • A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What's so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantl
... See moreOlivia Laing • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.” – Martha Beck
Chris Schembra • Gratitude Through Hard Times: Finding Positive Benefits Through Our Darkest Hours
One in which giving up a promotion to have free time for the people you love is wasted potential. In which mentioning you’re lonely is still taboo—despite 61 percent of Americans admitting to it behind closed doors.
Marisa G. Franco, PhD • Platonic: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You Make and Keep Friends
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.