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RESTORE YOUR PURPOSE IN SOLITUDE AND WITH OTHER MEN
David Deida • The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (20th Anniversary Edition)
Solitude
Although in our daily lives we are constantly with the Sangha, we are also in solitude. Solitude is not about being alone high up in the mountains, or in a hut deep in the forest, it is not about hiding ourselves away from civilization. Real solitude comes from a stable heart that does not get carried away by the crowd nor by our sorrows
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh • Extended Practices | Plum Village
Alone you are born, alone you will die. Between these two alonenesses you can deceive yourself that you are not alone, that you have a wife, a husband, children, money, power. But between these two alonenesses you are alone. Everything is just to keep yourself engaged in something or other, so that you don’t become aware of it.
Osho • Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence
Religion takes place in the congregation, but sometimes God can only be found alone.
David Kasher • ParshaNut: 54 Journeys into the World of Torah Commentary
You can be a renunciate and live alone, apart from woman and world. But if you choose a life of sexual and worldly intercourse, you will feel trapped by woman and world unless you are free in the midst of “true fuck,” yielding yourself into the giving, holding nothing back, dissolving all time in the open of love. Through thick and thin, this is
... See moreDavid Deida • The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (20th Anniversary Edition)
After spending thirty days alone in Antarctica, I wrote in my diary: ‘I have felt more alone at parties than I do out here.’